258 Ancient Chapels, fyc, in Co. Wilts. 



Collections, Aubrey & Jackson, p. 53. To which may be 

 added that, as part of ancient property derived from the Pavely 

 family, it belonged in 1535, to Edward, Lord Stourton. 



Axford, near Ramsbury. " Chapel to Ramsbury destructa." 

 [Liber Regis.] This is now part of the house of Mr. John 

 Rowland at Axford, and is used as a dairy. The architecture 

 is supposed to be of about Edw. III. 



Barn Court. See Whiteparish, infra. 



Baynton, or Beynton, in the parish of Edingdon, "N. Wilts, 

 (Whorwellsdown Hundred.) Anciently a rectory church, in 

 the presentation of the family of Rous. In the Wilts Insti- 

 tutions are the names of the Rectors from 1310 to 1439. It 

 is sometimes called the church, sometimes the chapel of Bayn- 

 ton : and the presentee is called in the Chartulary of Edingdon 

 Priory, " Rector of the chapel of Baynton." The manor and 

 advowson of the church, or chapel, was given to Edingdon 

 Priory, temp. Hen. YI. by the Rous family ; and the building 

 was allowed to perish at or before the Reformation. A field 

 called " Chapel Close," lies between Tynhead and West 

 Coulston, near the site of the old mansion house of the 

 Danvers family, close to the high road. In that field was found 

 some years ago a copper signaculum, having the B. V. M. on 

 one side, and a chalice on the other. 



Beckhampton, in Avebury parish (Selkley Hundred) ; sometimes 

 spelled Bakhampton, or Bakenton. Here was a Free Chapel 

 of St. Vincent. Henry de Moigne was patron in 1302. In 

 1 Edw. VI., John Warner, or Waryner, was the last Incum- 

 bent. Clear yearly value, £4 8s. See notes to Wilts Col- 

 lections, Aubrey & Jackson, p. 331. It is marked " Bakenton 

 Free Chapel" on the map in the Val. Eccles. The chapel 

 and tithes were purchased from the Crown in Philip and 

 Mary, by — Southcote. 



Bedwyn, Great, (Kinwardstone Hundred.) Of four destroyed 

 chapels, out of the five that stood in this parish, an account is 

 given by the late Rev. John Ward in Wilts Arch. Magazine, 

 vi., p. 270, viz. : — 



