formerly in the Close, Salisbury. 



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with a lion passant gardant argent ; between the squares were 

 birds azure, beaked and legged gules ; the whole forming a pleasing 

 diagonal pattern. The west wall was coloured as the field gules, 

 and the whole surface covered with lions statant gardant, argent. 

 The south wall was decorated with a kind of trellis pattern formed 

 into oblong divisions by vertical and horizontal red lines, at each 

 crossing of them was a calyx of four small black leaves ; from each 

 alternate one issued to the right and to the left a black stem with 

 a flower of five red petals and white centre, so that there was a 

 flower in each compartment of the trellis. No decorations were 

 traceable on the east wall. Many fragments of ancient floor tiles 

 were found among the debris of the building. 



The remaining part of the Sub- Chantry house was of later and 

 various dates, and contained but little of interest. 



The foregoing account is compiled by me from notes which I 

 made at the time of the demolition, I being then employed by Mr. 

 Fisher, the clerk of the works, to superintend the alterations. 



The accompanying illustration of the wall-decorations is made 

 from tracings taken by me, now in the Society's Library at Devizes. 



The following extract from the late Canon Jones' " Fasti 

 Ecclesioe Sarisberiensis," p. 272, relates to this house : — 



" It was at an early period that the office of Succentor was endowed with the 

 Rectory of Ebbesbourne Wake. A house also was assigned to the Succentor 

 August 27th, 1440. It was conveyed to William Berwyk, then Succentor, and 

 his successors, subject to the payment of certain ' obits,' and is described as a 

 house within the close, ' opposite the western entrance to the Cathedral, situated 

 between the house of the chaplains of the chantry of Lord Hungerford on one 

 side, and a small house near the house of the Dean on the other side.' " 



