128 Notes on Churches in the Neighbourhood of Marlborough. 



Raunds Church, as described by Hickman (" Attempt" &c, p. 230.) 

 The north doorway has an outer roll label like the side windows, 

 but the outside of the south door has been altered. 



it is interesting to note that the exterior face of the walls was 

 covered with plaster like k the inside, and that the put-log holes for 

 the scaffolding are clearly traceable. 



The interior has never been whitewashed like the Churches which 

 have been retained in use, and on the plaster can be traced curious 

 little inscribed circles irregularly placed. 



The whole work is refined and beautiful in the extreme, carried 

 out thoroughly well and with the minutest attention to details. 



This, in its present desecrated condition, is a very saddening in- 

 stance of fallen grandeur, and it is much to be hoped that the 

 Chapel may again be restored to the use to which it was originally 

 dedicated. The walls are sound and the present seventeenth or 

 eighteenth century roof with wind-braces could be well made to 

 serve its purpose, so that on the score of cost the matter would not 

 seem to be hopeless. 



Knowle Chapel. 



This Chapel stands in the ancient parish of Great Bedwyn and 

 was probably attached to that Church. It has been referred to in 

 the Wilts Arch. Mag., by both the Rev. John Ward (vol. vi., p. 

 270), and by Canon Jackson (vol. x., 259), neither of whom is able 

 to say more than that there was a Chapel here of which there is no 

 known record, but " parts of the building remain." 



We seem to have here the framework of the entire building of a 

 Chapel erected towards the end of the thirteenth century. It is a 

 simple parallelogram, measuring 24ft. 9in. long by 17ft. wide on the 

 outside (19ft. 6in. by lift. 9in. inside), without any structural 

 subdivision of plan, and the sanctuary was probably marked off by 

 a screen as at Chisbury. The walls are constructed of flint inter- 

 spersed with sarsens, the quoins of the east wall and parts of the 

 south-west quoin are formed of roughly-cut sarsens — a very unusual 

 feature in mediaeval work in this part of the county, although the 



