310 Ancient Chapels, fyc.> in Co. Wilts, 



church new, not many years before the Reformation : but 

 there is no account of any chantry endowment. Of the name 

 of this parish it may be observed that when Leland (1540) 

 came here, there was a spire (afterwards destroyed) : and he 

 says " The spired steeple of stone is very fayre and highe, and 

 of that it is cawllyd Steple Assheton." This appears to be 

 wrong. It is called in ancient documents Ashton Forum, or 

 Ashton Market. The real derivation therefore is Staple : as in 

 the case of Market or Staple Lavington. 



Stoke Yerdon : a hamlet in parish of Broad Chalk. A chapel 

 of St. Luke is mentioned here by John Aubrey (1670), in his 

 " MS. Remains of Gentilism," p. 144. " The Foresters of New 

 Forest in Hants, come annually to St. Luke's Chapel at Stoke 

 Yerdon, with offerings, that their deer and cattle might be 

 blest. I have a conceit that there might be dedicated and 

 hung up in that chapell (now demolished), some homes of 

 stagges that were greater than ordinary : and the like at St. 

 Luke's Chapel at Turvey- Acton (Acton Turville), in Glouces- 

 tershire, by the keepers and foresters of Kingswood Forest." 



Stratford sub Castro, (Hundred of Underditch.) In the Survey 

 of Chantries, 1 Edw. YL, " the Free Chappell of St. John's 

 under the castell of Old Sarum. in the parishe of Stratford. 

 Richard Dunstall, aged 60 years, incumbent. Clear yearly 

 value 12s." Possibly the same as already mentioned under 

 Sarum, Old, supra. 



Stratton St. Margaret, (Hundred of High worth.) Of an Alien 

 Priory here, said by Bp. Tanner to have been given, 20 Hen. YI. 

 to King's College, Cambridge ; little else seems to be known. 



Surrenden, in the parish of Hullavington, (Malmesbury Hundred.) 

 Here are the remains of a better kind of house, built either 

 by the Hamlyn or the Gore family, about A.D. 1560-70. It 

 is now a solitary farm-house, between Alderton and Hul- 

 lavington, belonging to Sir J. Neeld. Aubrey (1670) says, 

 " the Church or Chapel remaines yet, but decayed." There 

 is now no trace or tradition of it, nor any documentary record 

 whatsoever. 



