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Ancient Chapels, 8fC, in Co. Wilts. 



Chippenham in Wilts. A house of Cistercians from Tinterne 

 was founded by the Berkeley family about A.D. 1139. The) 

 gate-house, and a range of buildings on each side, form plate 

 xii. in Lysons's Antiquities of Gloucestershire. 



Kington St. Michael, (Hundred of Damerham North.) At St. 

 Mary's Priory in this parish, the priory chapel was still stand- 

 ing, but without " glasse, chancell, or monument," about 

 1670. [See Wiltshire Collections, Aubrey & Jackson, p. 145.] 

 A full history of the priory, and a plate of this chapel, is 

 given in the Wilts. Arch. Mag., iv., p. 51. The Priest of the 

 chapel had £5 6s. 8d. a year. 



Kington Langley, in the parish of Kington St. Michael. Here 

 was anciently a chapel of St. Peter : some slight vestiges of 

 which are still pointed out in one of the cottages, not far from 

 the modern little church also called St. Peter's. [See Wilts 

 Collections, p. 145. Also Wilts Arch. Mag.] 



Knighton, in Broad Chalk parish, (Hundred of Chalk.) The 

 south end of the transept in the parish church, now used as 

 the vestry room, and called " the Knighton Aisle," was a 

 Chantry Chapel, founded in Edw. II. (1322) for the soul of 

 John Alwyne of Knighton, and dedicated to All Saints. The 

 Prebendary of Chalk was patron. Mr. C. Bowles, the his- 

 torian of this Hundred, is of opinion that the property of the 

 chantry was sold to the St. Loe family, two of whom, Sir 

 Edward, 1578, and a grandson of the same name, were buried 

 in the chapel. It had " 2 meane bells." [Modern Wilts, 

 Chalk, 143.] 



Knowl. See Bedwyn, Great, supra. 



Lackham, in Lacock parish, (Hundred of Chippenham.) During 

 the time that the Bluet family were the ancient owners, a 

 Chantry Chapel stood within their manor of Lackham "juxta 

 Lacock." By a deed, without date, one Edward Sweyn charged 

 some land that he gave to the Nuns of Lacock, with the annual 

 payment of one penny for maintaining the lamp of St. Mary 

 within the chapel of Lackham [New Monast.]. In 1308, Sir 

 John Bluet gave to Robert de la Brigg, clerk, for his life 



