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Ancient Chapels, fyc, in Co. Wilis. 



Allington, in the parish of Chippenham. John Aubrey, (1660), 

 has this memorandum, " Qucere J. Milsham about the Chapel* 

 or then perhaps Church, where the pidgeon house stands now, 

 the pidgeon house being part of it. It was dedicated to 



St The Revell is kept the Sunday after Holyroode 



day 14th September." 



No further notice of any Chapel here has been met with. 

 {See Wilts. Collections, Aubrey & Jackson, p. 72.] 



Alton Priors, (Elstub and Everley Hundred). The " Free Chapel 

 of Alton," was confiscated among Wilts Chantries, 1 Edw. 

 VI. James Rogers was " Rector," 1517. On his death in 

 1545, John Hunnings was appointed, and seems to have been 

 the last. [Val. Eccl. and Wilts. Instit.] 



Alvediston, or Aston, (Hundred of Chalk). Mr. C. Bowles, [Mod. 

 Wilts. Chalk, p. 16] says there was a chantry here, but 

 there appears to be no further account of it. The south transept 

 is called the " Norrington," or "Gawen's Aisle." The north 

 transept, " Gould " or " Gold's Aisle." 



Ambresbury Monastery (Hundred of Amesbury). Ambresburyi 

 is perhaps the oldest Ecclesiastical locality in Wilts. A mon-i 

 astery of Monks or Friars is mentioned as having been in 

 very remote times on the Hill of Ambrius, Ambrosius, orjl 

 Ambres (Holy Stones) : for the exact derivation of the nameii 

 is not certain. This very early House of religious men was 

 succeeded by one of Benedictine Nuns, founded about A.D., 

 980, by Elfrida, widow of King Edgar, on or near the present 

 site of Amesbury House, which is not on the hill but below! 

 it. The church of the nuns is now the parish church. It 

 was reduced in size after the Reformation. The particulars 

 of this have been printed in the Wilts. Arch. Mag. x. 73. 

 There was also a Chapel in the Infirmary of the Monastery. 



Ansty, (in Dunworth Hundred). Here was a " Preceptory " or 

 House of the Knights Hospitalars, of St. John of Jerusalem, 

 founded by Walter de Turberville, 12 John, " to God, St. 

 Mary and St. John the Baptist." That the " Confratria," or 

 Brethren, had a Chapel in their house does not appear. John 



