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Calne. 



cases. drivers, Esq., of this parish, foreseeing 1 the fall of it if 



not prevented, and the great charge they must be at by it, brought 

 down Mr. Inigo Jones, to survey it 1 This was about 16-39 or 

 1640. He gave him 30/i out of his own pocket for his paines. 

 Mr. Jones would have underbuilt it for an 100/?. About 1645 it 

 fell down on a Saturday, and also broke down the ehancell. The 

 parish have since been at 1000/* charge to make a new heavy tower." 

 Aubrey calls the one that fell a steeple, leaving it uncertain whether 

 it was a square tower, or a spire. 



Some part of the Church was anciently claimed for right of burial 

 by the owners of Whetham, for in 1575 Roger Fynamore, then 

 owner, was buried in " Fynamore's Aisle 33 at Galne. 



St. Andrew's Chapel. 



In the register of Stanley Abbey mention is made of an agreement 

 between an inhabitant of Calne and the abbey about a house situated 

 on the north side of the " Chapel of St. Andrew." If this chapel 

 was inside the Church the house may have been against the wall of 

 it* But if a separate building I know nothing of its history. 



Chantry Chapels. 



Within the Church were two chantry chapels known to have been 

 endowed ; both founded in the reign of Henry VI. by the family of 

 St. Lo, owners of property at Westbury and Cheverell in Wilts, and 

 of Kewton St. Lo in Somerset. The name does not occur among 

 the Members of Parliament for Calne, nor have I any evidence to 

 explain their connection with the place. 



One of these chantries was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. 

 Walter Smallden was presented to it in 1537 by the Bishop of Sarum 

 j>er la j) sum. The lands belonging to it were parcels of large un- 

 enclosed tracts about the town, then called " Calne Fields." This 

 property in the year 1600 had come into the possession of the Seager 



1 The idea (printed in some descriptions of the Church) that Inigo Jones 

 took a special interest in the matter, because he was a Wiltshireman, is ground- 

 less. He was born in the parish of St. Bartholomew the Less, West Smithfield, 

 London, in 1573. 



