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By the Rev. Prebendary W. H. Jones, M.A., F.S.A., 



Vicar of Bradford-on-Avon, and Rural Dean. 



ffSjflS^Y this name we designate what is now a farm-house, within 

 fiPra^ a ver ^ snor t distance of the Manor-House, at South Wraxall, 

 and which, like it, is now the property of R. P. Long, Esq. It 

 was visited by the Society in August, 1872, and as some interest 

 was excited by a brief account then given of it, a more detailed and 

 permanent statement may not be out of place in the pages of our 

 Magazine. 



Externally there is now very little to indicate its original purpose. 

 A practised eye alone can detect, in the few remains of ancient 

 windows and door-ways, the fact that its modern use is different from 

 the intention of its original founders. It is only when we come to 

 separate all the comparatively recent additions from the older work* 

 that its original plan is revealed, as that of an ancient chapel, and 

 corresponding Hospitium, like the one at Chapel Plaister, which is 

 only a few miles distant from it. Indeed it is only within a very 

 recent period — certainly since 1838 — that what a writer describes as 

 " an immense chimney of Early English character and coeval with 

 the building/'' 1 has been removed, and so taken away another in- 

 dication of its age and original purpose. 



The plan, which accompanies this essay, will shew at a glance 

 what was the original design of this interesting structure. It con- 

 sisted of (1) a chapel, (2) a hall, and (3) a dwelling-house. There 

 was originally a large fire-place in the centre of the eastern side of 

 the hall. Some small fragments of the side pillars, which formed 

 part of it, are still to be seen lying about in front of the house. A 

 principal door-way has been inserted where the fire-place was, and 

 all trace of it, and of its large chimney, removed. 



1 Gent. Mag., March, 1838, p. 256. 



