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of Ailesbury, who also built the parsonage. The first incumbent 

 was the Rev. Henry Ward, M.A., who was instituted on the 11th 

 of April, 1844, the day of the consecration of the Church. He 

 resigned the incumbency on the 25th of November, 1845, and the 

 Eev. William Collings Lukis, M.A., was instituted by the Dean of 

 Salisbury, on the 19th of January following. The Rev. John Dry- 

 den Hodgson, M.A., late Fellow of St. Peter's College, Cambridge, 

 was instituted on the cession of Mr. Lukis, in 1850, and the Rev. 

 George Stallard, M.A., on the cession of Mr. Hodgson in 1855. 



Bedwyn Parish formerly contained 14,098 acres of land, which 

 still constitute the prebend. There were five Chapels of Ease to 

 the mother Church, four of which have been ruined for several 

 centuries. 1. At Grafton was St. Nicholas, which was presented to 

 so lately as in a.d. 1579, and which stood in a field nearly opposite 

 to the new Church. The foundations of this Chapel with debris of 

 stained glass and pavement tiles, were dug up and removed in the 

 year 1844. In plan it was a simple parallelogram, with two but- 

 tresses at each angle, the interior dimensions having been 53 feet 



