528 Wiltshire Chantries and the supply of Clergy in olden days. 



column of the Church. This enclosing was ordinarily effected by- 

 erecting a screen or screens of stone or wood.' Sometimes the 

 space enclosed for altar and tomb was under an arch in the nave, 

 accessible on all sides, and it took the form of a small chamber of 

 tabernacle- work, such as is noticeable at Warminster, Winchester, 

 and other great Churches. 1 Occasionally grating of iron constituted 

 the structure, as is the case of the chantry of Walter, Lord Hunger- 

 ford, a Chapel of the Annunciation, founded for two chaplains in 

 1449 in the north-east of the nave at Salisbury Cathedral," within 

 the second arch from the belfry on the north part of the body of 

 the Church westward," but which now stands, where Wyatt placed 

 it for the Earl of Kadnor in 1778-9, southward of the high altar, 

 to correspond with Bishop Edmund Audley's chantry chapel of the 

 Assumption, founded in 1520, to the north of the high altar, where 

 it still remains. Now and then a chantry chapel was built upon 

 a site exterior to the older plan of the Church. Such was Eobert 

 Lord Hungerford's chantry with the dedication-title of "our Lord 

 Jesu Christ and His Most Blessed Mother, Mary," which, from 

 1471 till its removal by Wyatt in 1789, was attached to the 

 north-east angle of the Lady Chapel at Salisbury. It contained 

 a curious mural painting of " Death and the Gallant.''' In like 

 manner the chantry of Bichard Beauchamp (Bishop of Salisbury, 

 1450 — 1482) and his parents was founded in 1481, outside the 

 original structure, in the angle north-east from the Lady Chapel. 

 It was removed in 1789. 



Sometimes where there was a community of two or more 

 chaplains they lived together in a sort of clergy house. Thus the 

 two chaplains founded by Margaret Lady Hungerford and Botreux 

 in 1472 were to live together in " Eobert, Lord Hungerford's 

 Chantry-House " in the Close at Salisbury. 



I have given a brief summary of the ordinances by which they 

 were governed in Salisbury Ceremonies and Processions, p. 285. 

 " ' Colleges ' were like large chantries at which three or more 



1 Mr. Ponting reminds us that at Edington there is a canopied tomb, 

 having a vaulted ceiling, and, at the foot of the tomb, a recess where the 

 priest probably stood. 



