By the Rev. J. E. Jackson. 



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

 so late as A.D. 1579, and which stood in a field nearly opposite 

 to the present new church (built 1844). The foundations of 

 the old 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 buttresses at each angle ; 

 the interior dimensions having been 53 feet long, by 17 feet 

 6 inches wide. An ancient pax found close by, is figured in 

 Wilts Arch. Mag. vi., 271. The chapel anciently belonged 

 to St. Margaret's Priory, Marlborough. 



2. Chisbury ; the Free Chapel of St. Martin, presented to in 

 A.D. 1496 by the Bishop of Salisbury, by lapse. The building 

 still remains, and is a beautiful specimen of decorated archi- 

 tecture : 52 feet 6 inches long, and 20 feet 2 inches wide, 

 inside. It stands within the old entrenchment, called Chisbury 

 camp. 



3. At Knowl, 1J miles west of Chisbury, was a chapel, of 

 which there is no known record : but parts of the building 

 remain. 



4. Marten. The foundations of a chapel, 47 feet long, by 19 feet 

 6 inches wide, were discovered here in November, 1858, by 

 Mr. Henry Selfe, in a meadow opposite the manor house, and 

 close to a remarkable moated inclosure. A ground plan, a 

 carving in ivory 10 inches high, representing the Virgin and 

 Child, found near here, and some fragments of stained glass 

 with the arms of the Malwyn family (of West Grafton, in 44 

 Edw. III.) are drawn in the 6th vol. of the Wilts Arch. Mag. 

 p. 273. 



Bentley Wood. Forest of Clarendon, (Alderbury Hundred.) 

 William Longespee, Earl of Salisbury (jure uxoris) , commenced 

 or at least intended a monastic establishment, which is twice 

 mentioned in his will dated 1225. "I assign £200 towards 

 the building of St. Mary of the Essart 1 of Bentle-wood. 



1 Essart, or more commonly Assart land, was cleared woodland. This, being 

 an injury to vert and venison in the King's forest, was a very great trespass if 

 done without license. Sometimes license was granted, and then Assart rents 



