By the Rev. J. Wilkinson. 



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where, undertook the repairs, and executed them most substantially 

 in 1856. 



Ecclesiastical and Religious History. 



"Gundrada, 1 with her kinswoman Albreda de Bosco Roaldse, gave 

 the chapel of Broctune with its lands and tithes to the Abbey of 

 Shaftesbury." 2 Whether any remains of this chapel exist, it is hard 

 to say ; but certainly portions of the existing structure are of the 

 beginning of the 13th century. An early English church of much 

 plainness appears to have been built here, without tower or porch. 

 About the middle of the 15th century it was extensively remodelled. 

 But the changes which the building has undergone will best appear 

 from the following sketch, for which I am indebted to Mr. Edward 

 Kite. 



"Ground Plan. — Chancel, Nave, Western Tower, Chantry Chapel 

 on the south side with a connected Porch, (forming together a South 

 Aisle), and North Aisle. 



1 From the manner in which this lady's name is mentioned, it would seem 

 that she is a historical personage, and ought to be known. I suppose her to 

 have been either the wife, or the daughter of William the Conqueror. Matilda 

 and Gundrada are the Dano-Norman and Flemish names of the same individual : 

 indeed the component parts of either name are synonymous with those of the 

 other, though in inverse order. Gundrada, the Conqueror's daughter, was the 

 wife of "William de Warrene, the founder of Lewes Priory, to which our neigh- 

 bouring Priory of Monkton Farleigh was subordinate. She died in child-birth 

 at Castle Acre in Norfolk, 27th May, 1085, and was interred in the Chapter 

 House of Lewes Priory. Her tomb was found in Isfield Church in Sussex, co- 

 vering the remains of Edward Shirley, Cofferer to Henry VIII., who is supposed 

 to have appropriated it on the dissolution of the Monasteries. The ornaments 

 were Norman, and the inscription, though mutilated, showed the names of Gun- 

 drada and St. Pancras, the patron saint of the Priory. Ellis's introduction to 

 Domesday, and Mr. Blaauw's papers in Archseol. xxxi. 



2 Hutchins' Dorset in Shaston Monastery. King John by charter confirmed 

 to the Church of St. Mary and St. Edward at Shaston in free demesne all those 

 lands which Emma the Abbess proved (dirationavit) to belong to her, in the 

 presence of King Henry his grandfather and his barons at Ealing. Among the 

 rest — "The chapel of Broctone with its lands and tithes, given by Gundrada 

 with her kinswoman Albreda de Bosco Roaldae." All these were proved by 

 Abbess Emma. "Given by the hand of Henry de Welle, Archdeacon of Wells 

 at Norh ... 23 May a.e. 7. 1205." 



