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Ancient Chapels, fyc. } in Co. Wilts. 



ancient foundation. Some fragments are still left. In Hen. 

 III., Gilbert le Engleys held lands in Whelpley, of the manor 

 of Castle Combe, and had the advowson of the Chapel of St. 

 Leonard. Institutions continue to 1538. On the homestead 

 of Whelpley Farm the walls of the chapel still remaining 

 enclose a stable. They are of flint, the corners being inter- 

 laced with stone. It stands on a lofty mound, and some 

 terraces near indicate the site of an adjoining manor house." 

 [See Matcham's Frustfield, pp. 30, 40.] 

 Whitchurch. See " Malmesbury," supra. 



Whiteparish. (Frustfield Hundred.) 1. Abbeston, alias Tich- 

 borne. A Free Chapel attached to the Manor of More 

 Abbeston, belonged in 13 LI to Andrew de Grimstead, Kt. : in 

 1354, to John Turberville : in 1398, to John Bettesthorne : 

 in 1427, to John Berkeley, Kt. : and in 1459, to Maurice 

 Berkeley of Beverston, co. Gloucester. Afterwards to the 

 College of St. Edmund of Sarum. The building has perished. 

 Mr. Bristow owns a piece of land called Chapel Field, where 

 it probably stood. [Matcham's Frustfield, p. 50.] In the 

 Wiltshire Institutions (where it is once called Albeston St. 

 James), are presentations from 1311 to 1436. 



2. Barn Court, Free Chapel. In 1 Edw. VI., Thomas Symberd 

 (St. Barbe) was Incumbent : the clear yearly value was 13s. 

 4d. [Survey of Chantries.] This was perhaps the Chapel of 

 Cowsfield Loveraz, of which Mr. Matcham [Frustfield, p. 71.] 

 says, " Cowsfield Loveries. A chapell endowed with a portion 

 of the tithes, belonged at an early period to this manor : the 

 first Institution appears in the year 1306, under the name of 

 Capella de Covesfield, to which a presentation was made by 

 Stephanus de Loveraz. The last mention of it in the Insti- 

 tutions occurs in 1464, but I know not even to what spot the 

 site of the building can be assigned." 



3. Testwood, " Free Chapel. In the said parish of Whiteparish : 

 Hoger Gilborne, Incumbent. Clere yerelie value, v., never 

 charged with Tenthes. Pension v 8 -" [Survey of Chantries.] 

 This may have been the endowed building to which Mr. 



