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Title: Wiltshire notes and queries
Year: 1893 (1890s)
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eer, in ye plantationsat S. Tidworth, at ye N.W. corner. Another days outing resulted in this interesting record : 1781, February 20th. Expedition to ye Duke of Queens-burys and Stonehenge. Metaque fervidis vix avitata rotis. Thusye ancient Druids, etc. House at Amesbury much altered by yepresent Duke ; the approach now on the side next the turnpike.Pictures likewise differently placed, and some taken away. 1 ,adyForbes and Lady Clarendon possess the other half of this grandcollection of portraits by Vandyke and Lely which were formerlyall to be seen together at Cornbury Lodge, Oxfordshire. February 22nd. Paper covering at ye i Hike of (Jueensburysnew Kitchen and cart house : very light, beautiful and elegant,but, qu. whether durable and how expensive. 1 Penton Mewsey, Audover, R. H. Clutterbuck, K.S.A.M<tv 1893. Great Chat1 field Church. 81 GREAT CHALFIELD CHURCH. In continuation of the notice of Great Chalfield Manor Housein Part I, page i, we now give an illustration of the west
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front of the church adjoining, which hears evident signs ofan even greater antiquity than the Manor House. The churchis dedicated to All Saints. We quote again from Mr. Walker,who, in Pugins Examples of Gothic Architecture^ gives so manybeautiful engravings of the different parts of the church, and also G 82 Wiltshire Notes and Qiieries. contributes the best account of the history of the rectory, as well asof the manor. He says:—In 1308 a chapel existed here, towhich 1 Walterus de Chaldefeld presented Wras. de Cumbe,the wall of which still remains, forming the body of the presentchurch—the west window having been an insertion, and the bellturret an addition of later date. The porch, also, which is peculiarand of elegant design, seems to have been added, together withthe present west doorway, about the time of Henry VII. Thos.Tropenell, who built the manor house, erected a beautiful chantrychapel to the south, and enclosed it with a rich stone screen, ofexcellent workmanship, adorn

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