Identifier: wiltshirearchaeo2518godd (find matches)
Title: The Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Goddard, Edward Hungerford, 1854- Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. Proceedings
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: (Devizes, Eng. : The Society)
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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, it is hardly possible to suppose that Mr.Hickmans elaborate descriptions are entirely invented. Perhaps itwould be better, in the absence of direct evidence, to suggest theconclusion that Bingham intended, when he began, to build ahospital on the threefold plan so commonly in use: but that hisdeath stopped the design, which afterwards was completed on asmaller scale, by finishing the two chapels already begun, and 1 Mr. Bigge writes thus :— there is a chapel now within the hospital, theother by it being pulled down. 2 That the northern transept, as figured by Hickman, ever really existed thereis nothing to show. The southern transept was exactly on the spot where after-wards (in the fifteenth century) stood a covered way to the privies (see PlateNo. II.), since demolished. What Hickman calls the Sanctum Sanctorum—the building to the cast of theof the present eastern wall of the hospital—can never have been in existence atall; and this is sufficient to discredit his whole plan.
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By the Rev. Canon Moberly. 129 building1 a row of cells upon the north of the arcade already inexistence, to correspond to that upon the south. Next, did Bingham destroy the older building, or build on anindependent site ? i.e., is the older building still traceable outsidewhat has since been the hospital? Our evidence on this point isfairly conclusive. Binghams Inventory, written the same day withhis ordination of the hospital, mentions a mansus juxta vetushospitale versus aquilonem. It is true these words are ambiguous :they may mean only that St. Nicholas possessed a mansion to thenorth of the old hospital, and give no indication whatever as to thewhereabouts of the old hospital itself. Still it is perhaps morelikely that they should mean that the vetus hospitale was to thenorth of the new hospital, then just built. So evidently Mr.Hickman took them in 1713 : for he draws upon his sketch-plan ofthe buildings before 1502 a house to the north of the hospital, uponwhich he writes the

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