Notes on Place* Visited by the Society in 1895. 319 



Note. — The hospital of Edington should have been described as 

 the only house of Bon-honimes in England except Ashridge, in 

 Bucks, whence it received its first master. 



The order to which the small priory of Easton belonged is not 

 quite certain. Tanner calls them canons or freres of the Trinitarian 

 Order: the report given above, in App. A., calls them " crosse 

 chanons." That they were not friars seems clear from their in- 

 clusion in that report, which deals with monks only. 



on places Wmttb tg % jSodetjr 

 in 1S95. 



By Habold Bbakspeae, A.R.I.B.A. 



Sheldon Manor House. 



jggHE manor of Sheldon was given by Henry III. to Sir W. 

 de Grodarville and his heirs — the last of whom left two 

 daughters co-heiresses, one of whom married Sir Greoffrey Graseelyne, 

 who became, in the right of his wife, Lord of the manor of Sheldon 

 and hundred of Chippenham, 1250. 1 



Probably shortly after this time the whole house was re-built ; 

 but unfortunately none of it exists except the porch, which is an 

 excellent example of the period, and is the earliest piece of truly 

 domestic architecture in this part of the county. The porch itself 

 is vaulted with diagonal ribs, of semi-octagonal section, resting on 

 attached corner shafts with moulded caps. The outer doorway is 

 of two plain members broadly chamfered, flanked by double angle 

 buttresses finished at the top by gablets ; it has a double lancet 

 window in the west wall with trefoil heads, now unfortunately 

 blocked up. Above is a parvise known as " the Priest's Chamber," 

 entered by a small segmental-headed doorway in the eas< wall ; the 



1 Wilts Arch. Mag., iii., 28. 



