KNOYLE (EAST), a parish in the hundred of DOWNTON,
though locally in that of Mere, county of WILTS,
2 miles (S. W.) from Hindon, containing 954 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and
diocese of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £30,
and in the patronage of the Bishop of Winchester. The
church is dedicated to St. Mary. There is a place of
worship for Baptists. The sum of about £10 per
annum, arising from bequests by Charles Trippet, in
1707, and Mary Shaw, is applied towards the instruction
of children. The celebrated architect, Sir Christopher
Wren, was a native of this parish, of which his
father, Christopher Wren, D.D., was rector.