HOLY GHOST CHAPEL, BASINGSTOKE, HAMPSHIRE. ON an eminence at the northern extremity of Basingstoke, are situated the remains of Holy Ghost Chapel, so called from its having been connected with a brotherhood or guild of the Holy Ghost, instituted by sir William Sandys, knt. afterwards first lord Sandys, and Fox, bishop of Winchester, under a license from Henry VIII. This fraternity was dissolved in the first of Edward VI. and its possessions vested in the crown; but in the first of Philip and Mary, a brotherhood was again established here, and the former possessions re-granted "for the maintenance of a priest, for the celebration of divine service, and for the instruction of the young men and boys of the town of Basingstok." About the beginning of the reign of James I. the brotherhood became extinct; and during the confusion of the civil wars, the chapel estate was seized by parliament, and the school shut up; but through the care of bishop Morley, the estate was again restored, about the year 1670. The site of this chapel is traditionally said to have been occupied by a religious structure from the period of the Saxon times; and the present building is generally ascribed to the above sir William Sandys. The building, though small, is much |