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Avon, on the road from Bradford to Bath. " A chapel here 

 is mentioned expressly in the deeds by which Henry VIII. 

 bestowed the Rectorial Tithes and the advowson of the churches 

 and chapels " (of Bradford) " on the Dean and Chapter of 

 Bristol." [Rev. W. H. Jones, History of Bradford, Wilts 

 Arch. Mag. v., 37.] 



Dauntesey, (Hundred of Malmesbury.) In Ecton, p. 403, and 

 Bacon's Liber Regis, p. 885, this church is entered as " Daun- 

 tesey R. (St. James) cum capelld westend." Nothing is known 

 now in the parish about such ancient chapel, or such name as 

 Westend. The only approach to an explanation that it is in 

 my power to make, is, that there certainly was on the 

 far side of the parish, at a small hamlet called Smithcote, a 

 chapel dedicated to " Saint Anne." It was long since des- 

 troyed. See Smithcote, infra. 



Despencer's. A license was granted by the Pope in 1256, to 

 John Despencer to have a chapel on his estate, owing to dis- 

 tance from the parish church. [Rymer i., 610.] Where 

 this was is uncertain : perhaps Fasterne in Wotton Basset. 



Deverell, (Kingston Deverell, Hundred of Mere.) In Sir R. C. 

 Hoare's Mere, p. 143, is an extract from Bishop Osmund's 

 Register (A.D. 1099), relating to Mere church, which mentions 

 a chapel at Deverell, belonging to that church. " Item, alia 

 capella apud Deverell, quam tenet Walterus Decanus pro 4 

 marcis, per 4 terminos anni, et est Capella de Sto. Andrea, 

 et est de dominico Canonicorum Cenomansium, quorum terram 

 habet Ricardus de Derneferd ad firmam." This "chapel" 

 probably stood in that part of Kingston Deverell which an- 

 ciently belonged to the Canons of Lisieux in Normandy. [See 

 Mere, p. 138.] 



Devizes. In 1547, a chantry called "the Free Chapel of St. John 

 Baptist" was confiscated, its property being £3 13s. 2d., 

 a year: Robert Peade aged 63 years, Incumbent. Mr. 

 Waylen, the historian of Devizes, says that the present 

 parish church of St. John's was itself anciently called 

 the Free Chapel of St. John : but there is so much confusion 

 of terms in the early notices of the ecclesiastical buildings of 



