By C. E. Ponting, Esq. 241 



the chancel of the parish Church, to which I have given the name 

 of sacristy. But, as Canon Jackson points out, a chapel so richly 

 endowed, served, and appointed, must have been a more important 

 structure than this, and he considered that it was an edifice altogether 

 separate from the parish Church, and probably in quite a different 

 part of the parish. 



Canon Jackson, however, incidentally mentions that St. Katharine's 

 chapel and its lands became the property of Magdalen College, 

 Oxon, in 1483, when the former was suppressed and its services 

 discontinued, and he also says, " Captain Symonds, too (1644), was 

 told that the chancel had been a chapel, and the body added since/' 



Is it not possible that the chapel known as St. Katharine's was 

 the one last referred to, that it stood on the site of the present 

 chancel, that the " body of the Church " was added to it at about 

 1400, making it the chancel of the parish Church, and that it (the 

 chapel) was pulled down on the suppression of tbe chantries in 

 1483, the present chancel being erected in its place ? If this were 

 so, the early fourteenth century doorway, which is inserted in the 

 later wall of the north aisle (and not built into it at the time of the 

 erection of the wall) was most probably taken from the chapel at 

 this time and placed here to supersede a plainer doorway more like 

 that on the south side. It is much richer in detail, as well as being 

 earlier in date, than any other part of the Church. Then Aubrey 

 states that in the glazing of the east window, which then (1659-70) 

 existed, this inscription occurs : — - l 



"(©rate p. ©na a .... que fjanc fimestram fieri fecit, 

 too Wni. mOUtfimo. mmM^M" 



And adds : — 



" a Emma Fisher, as I am informed." 



Canon Jackson says : — " This is probably Alice Fisher, elected 

 Prioress of Ambresbury, 16th May, 1486, who becoming thereby 

 Rector of Wanborough, may have adorned her chancel with the 

 window." 



1 Jackson's Aubrey, p. 199. 



