By the Rev. J. E. Jackson. 



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chapel of perpendicular date on the south side of the chancel, 

 has marks of chapel service, a step to the altar, a piscina, and 

 a niche for a figure or lamp : but there is no record of endow- 

 ment. It has been used for burial, first by the Auncell, and 

 since by the Beckett families of Littleton, in this parish. 

 (Kite's Wilts Brasses, p. 54.) 



The " Dauntesey Chapel, " is a small late perpendicular 

 addition to the south side of West Lavington Church : the 

 burial place, after 1571, of the Dauntesey family, formerly 

 owners in this parish, of the estate afterwards belonging 

 successively to the Danvers family, the Earl of Abingdon, and 

 now Lord Churchill. There is no record of any endowment, 

 nor any indication that it was ever used for celebration of 

 religious services. 

 Littlecote, near Hungerford, (Hundred of Ramsbury). Ecton 

 mentions "Littlecote, a chapel to Chilton Foliot, destroyed. 

 "Formerly appropriated to the Prior of Bradenstoke." In this 

 there is perhaps an error. In the Charters of Bradenstoke 

 Priory [New Monast. No. 2], a William de Lytelcote is indeed 

 named as having given to that house certain lands, but 

 they are described as " adjacent to the land of Bradenstoke." 

 This must therefore have been not Littlecote in Chilton, but 

 the farm still called Littlecote near Lyneham : " Lyneham 

 cum Lytelcote " being named in the Yalor Eccles., among the 

 possessions of Bradenstoke Priory. 



As to Littlecote chapel, in Chilton : there is in the Wilts 

 Institutions one presentation to it, in A.D. 1344 : but two 

 patrons are named, Isabella de Hautford, (which is probably 

 an error for Hankford) and Robert Hungerford, Kt. The 

 name of the latter being printed in italics, a9 if doubtfully, 

 the connexion of the Hungerfords with Littlecote or its chapel 

 becomes obscure. But the chapel is mentioned at a later 

 period. Sir Edward Darell, by will 1528, bequeaths "to hia 

 cousyn and heir apparent " Edward Darell, " all stuff, orna- 

 ments, vestments, and juells belonging, and now occupied and 

 used, and also belonging unto my Chappell at Littlecot." 



