By John U. Powell, M.A. 



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The same Ely as Griffard, " for the good of his soul and that of 

 Berta, his wife," founded the Churches of Boy ton, Orcheston St. 

 George, and the Chapel of St. Andrew, at Winterbourne, and gave 

 all of them to the monks of Gloucester : there he became a monk, 

 and died in 1159. 1 



Just at this time (1135—1154) :— 



" The people were stirred by the first of those great religious movements which 

 England was to experience in the preaching of the Friars, the Lollardism of 

 Wiclif, and the Reformation. A new spirit of devotion woke the slumber of 

 the religious houses, and penetrated alike to the home of the noble and the trader." 

 (Green, Short ffistory, p. 91.) 2 



It was a revival of English national feeling, of morals, and religion, 

 and the movement spread into Wilts, culminating in the building 

 of Salisbury Cathedral. The next date at which the Church is 

 mentioned is 1220, the year in which the foundation stones of 

 Salisbury Cathedral were laid. In that year, William de Wanda, 

 Dean of Sarurn, to complete the work of Church organisation which 

 the revival began, undertook a visitation of the prebendal estates. 

 In the " Osmund Register," or, as it would be better called, " Richard 

 Poore's Register" (Bishop of Sarum 1217 — 1229), an account is 

 given of this visitation. The entry, which gives a complete in- 

 ventory of the Church furniture, including the service books, and 

 which mentions that the Church is still to be dedicated, is there 

 given in full. Some of the following particulars are interesting : — 



"There is a stone Church, covered with lead, and needing repair; it has a 

 Baptistery and Cemetery, and gets its oil and chrism from Heytesbury. There 

 is a broken and disfigured [debilis et deformis\ image of the Virgin ; two pro- 

 cessional crosses; a small silver cup." 



Yarious vestments are then enumerated, then :— - 



"One sufficient surplice ; one insufficient surplice ; one thurible requiring 

 mending ; four candlesticks ; a sufficient Chrismatory. There is no Pyx con- 

 taining the Eucharist, but this is deposited in a silk purse. Two portable marble 

 altars, consecrated." 



1 There is a tradition among the old men that there was land belonging to the 

 Church, and stolen from it, somewhere along the river towards Brixton : this is 

 worth mentioning, but through lack of evidence we cannot go further. 



2 Canon Jones, in his admirable popular History of the Diocese of Sarum, p. 

 103, quotes this passage with the ourious misprint of " doctrine " for " devotion." 



