STYDD, formerly Stedde, in the hundred of Appletree, 1 mile south-west, is tithe and toll free and was formerly a township, but by Local Government Board Order part was in 1886 transferred to Yeaveley, the remainder being annexed to Snelston. In the reign of Richard I. Ralph le Salter gave the Benedictine hermitage here, dedicated to SS. Mary and John the Baptist, to the Knights Hospitallers, whereupon it became a preceptory of that order, to which Sir William Meynell, lord of the town A.D. 1268, was a great benefactor: this preceptory was granted, 35 Hen. VIII. (1543), to Charles, Lord Mountjoy. There are still considerable remains of the chapel consisting of a portion of the south walls and vestry, with several graceful lancet windows and clustered pillars with richly foliated capitals, these details showing beyond doubt that they belong to the original chapel erected temp. Richard I.; there is also, close to the chapel wall, a font of the same period, and on the sward a coffin slab incised with a floriated cross and a sword. The Hall adjoins these ruins, and has at one time been moated; it was restored some years since and is now occupied as a farmhouse.