Chisbury

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Coordinates: 51°23′38″N 1°36′07″W / 51.394°N 1.602°W / 51.394; -1.602
Chisbury
Chisbury

 Chisbury shown within Wiltshire
OS grid reference SU2764
Civil parish Little Bedwyn
Unitary authority Wiltshire
Ceremonial county Wiltshire
Region South West
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Marlborough
Postcode district SN8
Dialling code 01672
Police Wiltshire
Fire Wiltshire
Ambulance Great Western
EU Parliament South West England
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Chisbury is a hamlet and prehistoric hill fort in the civil parish of Little Bedwyn in Wiltshire, England. Chisbury is about 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Hungerford and about 6 miles (9.7 km) south-east of Marlborough.

History

At 176 metres (577 ft) above sea level Chisbury hill fort is the highest point in Little Bedwyn parish[1] and encloses an area of about 14 acres (5.7 ha).[2] Palaeolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age artefacts have been found in the area, but the hill fort was most probably built in the late Iron Age in the 1st century AD.[1]

St. Martin's chapel seems to have been built in the early part of the 13th century.[1] There are written records of it from 1246 onwards and its surviving architecture is contemporary with that period.[1] The windows have the remains of good-quality tracery in a style that suggests they were made in the latter part of the 13th century.[1][2] Between 1496 and 1518 St. Martin's lacked a priest, but it was served again from 1518 until 1547.[1] Thereafter St. Martin's lapsed from use for worship and was turned into a barn.[1] It was re-roofed in the 19th century and is a listed building, but in 1998 its condition was semi-ruinous.[1]

Knowle Farm, about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north-west of Chisbury, has a 14th-century chapel.[1] It is now an outbuilding of the farmhouse.[1] A blocked ogee-headed north window and the surround of the east window are the only surviving features.[3] The farmhouse is a brick-built Georgian house of five bays dated 1735.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Crowley, 1999, pages 50-69
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 174
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 463

Sources and further reading

  • Aston, Michael; Bond, James (1976). The Landscape of Towns. Archaeology in the Field Series. London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. pp. 59, 60. ISBN 0-460-04194-0. 
  • Crowley, D.A. (ed.); Baggs, A.P.; Freeman, Jane; Smith, C.; Stevenson, Janet H.; Williamson, E. (1999). A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 16: Kinwardstone hundred. Victoria County History. pp. 50–69. 
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus; Cherry, Bridget (revision) (1975) [1963]. Wiltshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 174–175, 463. ISBN 0 14 0710.26 4 Check |isbn= value (help). 

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