2 LISCOMBE. 



Customary of Milton (1318), and, according to the Inquisition 

 of 1312, the chapel of Liscombe was annexed to the church of 

 Milton by the gift of King Athelstan. 



After the Dissolution in 1539 the hamlet was sold to a family 

 named Reeves, but the chapel became the property of Sir John 

 Tregonwell, Lord of the Manor of Milton Abbey, and in 1680 

 the hamlet also passed into the hands of one of his descendants, 

 John Tregonwell, Esquire. But a subsequent Lord of the 

 Manor of Milton (John Strachan, Esquire) sold the hamlet and 

 chapel in 1755 to a yeoman, named Miller, whose descendants 

 possessed it for many years. The property, however, now 

 belongs to Mr. Henry Jesty, of Roke Farm, near Bere Regis. 



I. But it is the chapel of Liscombe which is especially worthy 



of attention. This little building, built principally of flint, stone, 



, and large blocks of rock chalk, is entire, and consists of chancel 



and nave, divided by a handsome Transition-Norman arch with 



CAPITAL, CHANCEL ARCH. 



