240 The Churches of Purlon and Wanborough. 



instead of square with the tower. The north-east and south-east 

 buttresses are carried up inside the aisles to the same form and 

 dimensions as the outer ones. 



The north porch is coeval with the tower : it has a niche over 

 the doorway and a stoup on the right-hand side. The inner door- 

 way in the north aisle wall is, however, an insertion, and earlier in 

 date than the wall in which it is placed, and the inner arch which 

 occurs over it ; it is, moreover, awkwardly inserted out of centre 

 with the latter. A stoup of large size occurs westward of it on 

 the inside. The south porch is a plain one of late date. 



The chancel and its coeval sacristy opening out from the south 

 side of the sacra rium were apparently erected at about 1490. 



A glance at what is known of the mediaeval history of Wan- 

 borough, as given in Canon Jackson's "Aubrey/' appears to throw 

 some light on certain parts of this Church. 



There appear to have been three chapels in Wanborough. Aubrey 1 

 refers to a tradition that Viscount Lovell, favourite to Richard IIlJ 

 had a house in the parish, with chapel adjoining; he also speaks of 

 another chapel at Hall Place, near, dedicated to St. Ambrose, both 

 house and chapels having been pulled down, and the materials 

 carried to build the tower of the parish Church. (Canon Jackson, 

 however, calls attention to the inconsistency of this statement, as 

 Lovell did not own the estate till 1464, whereas the tower was 

 begun in 1435.) 



Captain Symonds, of King Charles's army who visited Wan- 

 borough in 1644 mentions a "Church of St. Margaret's/' that 

 stood by Lovell's House, which is probably identical with the St. 

 Ambrose above-mentioned, the latter dedication being probably the 

 correct one, as a field at Hall Place is still called by that name. 



The third chapel, that of St. Katharine, appears to have been 

 one of great importance, having two foundations within it by 

 separate families, five priests in its service, a choir who kept the 

 obits, more than one altar, and bells. This had hitherto been 

 commonly supposed to have been the building on the north side of 



1 Jackson's Aubrey, p. 196. 



