26 The Green Dragon Inn, Alderbury. 



wisely worked four of the capitals into the new drinking fountain 

 erected in the village. The materials here appear to be Chilmark, 

 Doulting, and Bath freestone, used indiscriminately. 



The Green Dragon Inn, Alderbury. 



Part of the house now the " Green Dragon " Inn is of great 

 interest. Outside is a good half-timbered gable. Inside is one 

 large room (now divided) separated from the passage by an oak 

 doorway. The room has a fine ceiling of moulded beams, and 

 contains a stone fireplace said to have been brought from the 

 Priory, although it suits its present position extremely well. It 

 is of fifteenth century type, with ogee arch beautifully crocketted 

 and with bold roses 10 inches in diameter in the spandrels. Above 

 is a moulded shelf with shields, the central one charged with the 

 arms of England and France Quarterly ; on either side are other 

 shields, one on a cross Jive annulets, the other a fess betiveen three 

 dogs' heads collared, erased. There is also the iron gearing of the 

 spit in situ. 



Hoare, Modern Wilts, V., p. 6, says : — 



" In a small public-house in the village is a large and curious chimney 

 piece decorated with shields of arms, &c, which probably once belonged 

 to the adjacent Priory. It measures 7 feet by 2 feet 8 inches, and is 

 carved out of one solid block of Portland stone." 



As to Ivychurch (Modern Wills, V., p. 187) he says : — 



" The conventual buildings of Ivy Church have entirely disappeared, 

 and its site is occupied by a modern house which belongs to the Earl of 

 Eadnor. In the house are two little statues." A plate of the two statues 

 and the Green Dragon fireplace is given. 



