274 Ancient Chapels, fyc., in Co. Wilts. 



in existence beforo 1291, in which year the "Rector's" in- 

 come was valued by the Taxation of Pope Nicholas, at £2 per 

 annum. He had another benefice. The first institution is in 

 1304, the last 1395, After being united to Boyton, it seems 

 to have fallen to decay. It is not noticed in the Valor of | 

 Hen. VIII. : and no trace of it remains. A place called 

 Chapel Hole, between Boyton and Corton, is pointed out by 

 the rustics as the spot where a church was once swallowed up i 

 by diabolical agency. Sir R. C. Hoare concurs with the tra- 

 dition so far as to think that the chapel stood not far from the | 

 spot. [History of Heytesbury, p. 218.] 

 Corton, (alias Corston) in Hilmerton parish, (Hundred of Kings- 

 bridge.) The Free Chapel of Corton was, A.D. 1344, in the 

 gift of the family of Russell of Bradenstoke : by whose heiress 

 Johanna, wife of Quatermaine, it was sold in 1434 to Walter 

 Lord Hungerford, E.G. By a Deed of 1442 (a copy of which 

 is in my possession), Lord Hungerford annexed it to the 

 chantry of St. Mary in Heytesbury church. Yet presentations 

 to Corton or Corston chapel, occur in the "Wilts Institutions 

 at a later date : and in 1 Edw. VI. (1547), as appears by a 

 Survey in the Court of Augmentations, the Free Chapel of 

 Corton in Hilmerton, was returned as worth £3 6s. 8d. a year : 

 William Standyshe aged 40 years, being the Incumbent. The 

 chapel is destroyed. The site is traditionally pointed out in 

 a field on the western side of Corton farm house, on the slope 

 of the downs. It is named on the map of the Valor Eccles. 

 Cowsfield Loveraz. See Whiteparish infra. 

 Cowsfield Spilman. See ditto. 



Cricklade. In 1547 (1. Edw. VI.) there was here a free chapel 

 of St. John in the priory or hospital of St. John. The prefect 

 was collated by the Bishop of Salisbury. Thomas Parham, 

 aged 70 years, was incumbent. Value per ann. £4 15s. 8d. 

 It is mentioned in the Rolls of Parliament, ii., 413. : and in 

 Prynne iii., 709, as here in 25 Edw. I. No remains of it are 

 to be found. 



Cumberwell, now in the district of Christ Church, Bradford on 



