Identifier: wiltshirenotesqu3118unse (find matches)
Title: Wiltshire notes and queries
Year: 1899 (1890s)
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Publisher: (Devizes : s.n.)
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Ruddle. John Clare, S. J. (vol. hi, p. 235). —He probably belongedto a South Wilts family of this name—one of whom—RobertClare alias Dominick—was, about the year 163S, tenant ofChicklade Farm, near Hindon—rented at that time of theBennett family. In 1698, William Clare, of Heytesbury, gent, purchasedlands at Upton Lovel, and from him, I believe, descendedWilliam Clare, of Devizes, surgeon, and for 50 years one ofthe Coroners for this County. He died in 1829, aged S2. Seemonumental tablet in St. James Church, Devizes. His lateresidence, No. 23, Market Place, still retains the figure otiEsculapius in a recess over the doorway. WlLTOMENSIS. Cbnrcb of 99. iitani anu fltrliorus, JUusburg. Ground Plan,showing arrangementof grave stones, withstone coffins and slabsuncovered in 1S53. A. Chancel. B. Tower. C. C. Transepts. D. Chap< This part of thebuilding dates fromthe early part of the13th century, and isbelieved to haveformed the .MonasticChurch until the Dis-solution, in 1539)
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E. Nave. F. South Aisle. G. Porch (now gone). (To these portions,which seem to haveserved during theMiddle Ages as theParish Church, theMonastic Church be-came annexed soonafter the Dissolution.Part of the nave is ofearly Norman date.This was apparentlyre-modelled, and anaisle added, in the15th century.) Scale, 30 Feet to an Inch. REFERENCES. a. Recess with canopy. b b. Doorways, now closed up. c. Recess in outer wall, ap- parently an aumbry. d. Double piscina. e e. Arches in cast walls of tran-septs, now blocked up. f. Low arch, blocked up. g. Doorway leading into cloister. h. Piscina. i. Doorway, blocked up. k. Jamb of Norman doorway(entrance to cloister ?) /. Remains of Holy waterstoup. ;;/. Oak screen ; 15th century)removed in 1853. GRAVESTONES, &c. George Cuthbert. Jane Stokes. Rev. Thomas Holland. William Rigdon, gent. William Cousins. Henry Cox, gent. Henry Cox, gent. Mary Keene. Rev. Thomas Neale. John Cousins. Rev. Henry Head. Giles Sadler, gent. Entrance to vault. Mary H

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