This church hath no pillar, and the breadth is thirty
and two feete and two inches. Hereabout are no trees now growing that
would be long enough to make the crosse beames that doe reach from
side to side. By the fashion of the windowes I doe guesse that it was
built in the reigne of King Henry the Sixth. [The church of Broad
Chalk is described in Hoare's Modern Wiltshire, Hundred of Chalk, p.
148.]
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The market-crosses of Salisbury, Malmesbury, and Trowbridge, are very
noble: standing on six pillars, and well vaulted over with freestone
well carved. On every one of these crosses above sayd the crest of
Hungerford, the sickles, doth flourish like parietaria or wall-flower,
as likewise on most publique buildings in these parts, which witnesse
not onely their opulency but munificency. I doe think there is such
another crosse at Cricklade, with the coate and crests of Hungerford.
Quaere de hoc. [There is not any cross remaining in Trowbridge; and
that at Cricklade, in the high street, is merely a single shaft,
placed on a base of steps. The one at Salisbury is a plain unadorned
building; but that of Malmesbury is a fine ornamented edifice. It is
described and illustrated in my "Dictionary of the Architecture and
Archaeology of the Middle Ages". - J. B.]
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The Lord Stourton's house at Stourton is very large and very old, but
is little considerable as to the architecture.
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