A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



The mayne Arme and Streame of Alsford 

 Water devidid a litle above the College into 2 

 Armes on eche side of the College. Withyn 

 these 2 Armes not far fro the very College 

 Chirch of S. Elizabeth is a Chapel of S. 

 Stephan.' * 



Mr. Kirby describes the acquisition of this 

 site by Winchester College as a piece of good 

 fortune. It stood in what is now the war- 

 den's kitchen garden, facing the cloisters. 

 On the ordnance map, in the meadow near 

 the school bathing place, is marked ' site of St. 

 Elizabeth College ' ; but the foundation of an 

 oblong building on that site really belonged 

 to the chapel of St. Stephen. 



When Wriothesley sold St. Elizabeth's to 

 Winchester College, he imposed a condition 

 that the buildings should be either pulled 

 down or converted into use as a grammar 

 school before Pentecost, 1547. In the deed 

 of sale, 1 8 April, 1544, the college of St. 

 Elizabeth is described as having a church, 

 belfry and cemetery, and containing 4^ acres. 

 Possibly there may have been orginally some 

 idea of turning St. Elizabeth's into a boarding 

 house for scholars ; but within a year of the 

 purchase the new owners began the work of 

 demolition, stripping the lead from the church, 

 and using the stones for building the wall 

 which bounds the south side of Meads. 3 



The rather clumsy fifteenth century oval 

 seal (see illustration) represents St. Elizabeth 

 of Hungary standing in a canopied niche, 

 with a palm branch in the right hand and a 

 book in the left. Behind her is an angel 

 with extended wings holding a crown over 

 the saint's head. The idea of this seal is far 

 better than its execution. Legend : s' COM- 

 MUNE COLLEGII SANCTE ELIZABETH. 



COLLEGE OF ST. ELIZABETH, WINCHESTER 

 PROVOSTS 



John de Wynfred, 1301 

 Richard de Bourne, 1307 

 Adam de Capel, 3 1316, 1317 

 Nicholas de la Flode, 4 1320-2 

 John de Gorges, 5 1322 

 John de Thynden, 8 1334 



1 Leland's Itinerary, iii. 85. 



2 Kirby's Annals of Winchester College, 256-8. 



3 Winton. Epis. Reg., Sandale, passim. 



* Ibid. Asserio, f. 14. Provost Adam ex- 

 changed with his successor for the rectory of New- 

 church, Isle of Wight (ibid. f. 23). 



Ibid. f. 23. 



' Pat. 8. Edw. III. pt. i,m. 35 ; pt. 2, mm. 33, 



John de Nubbelaye, 7 1350 

 John de Peveseye 

 John de Sheptone, 8 1373 

 Thomas Boys, 9 1381-7 

 John de Ketone, 10 1387 

 Simon Wylet, 1387-97 

 John Hulyn, 11 1397-1401 

 Walter Hardene, 1401 

 Richard Newport, about 1501 

 Dr. Pers or Peers, 1535, 1536 



33. THE CHAPEL AND GILD OF 

 THE HOLY GHOST, BASING- 

 STOKE 111 



The extensive and beautifully situated ruins 

 of the chapel of the Holy Ghost, in a large 

 and well-planted cemetery to the north of the 

 town, are well known by sight, as they stand 

 so close to the railway station and at once 

 attract attention. 



Hasty observers might be apt to conclude 

 that the cemetery was of comparatively late 

 origin, but on the contrary it is far older than 

 the ruins. It is supposed that this extra- 

 mural burying-place for the town had its 

 origin during the interdict in the reign of 

 John (1208-14), when churchyards were 

 closed. On the removal of the interdict the 

 ground would be consecrated, and a chapel 

 probably erected for masses for the faithful 

 departed there buried. At all events it is an 

 historic fact that a chapel of the Holy Ghost 

 stood in the liten or corpseland, as it is still 

 called, prior to the year 1244, when William 

 Raleigh, Bishop of Winchester, assigned a 

 third of the offerings in that chapel to the 

 vicar of Basingstoke. Simon, chaplain of the 

 chapel of the Holy Ghost, is one of the 

 witnesses to a deed of 1250 in the muniment 

 room of Merton College. 



That the chapel was one of considerable 

 size and importance becomes manifest when 

 it is mentioned that David Martin, Bishop of 



7 Cal. of Papal Petitions, i. 208 ; Cal. of Papal 

 Letters, iii. 456. 



8 Winton. Epis. Reg., Wykeham, i. f. 48 ; iii. 

 f. ygb. Provost Shepstone exchanged the church 

 of Smarden with the preceding provost. 



8 Ibid. i. f. 129. 



10 Ibid. iii. f. 2313. Provost Ketone, treasurer 

 of Wolvesey, held for six months in commendam. 



11 Ibid. i. f. 178, 271. 



12 A short account of the history of this chapel 

 and gild was issued by Rev. S. Loggon in 1 742, 

 of which an enlarged edition was printed in 1819. 

 The History of Basingstoke by Messrs. Baigent & 

 Millard (1889) deals thoroughly with the subject, 

 pp. 1 1 0-7 1 , and appendix 663-77. The sketch 

 here given is mainly based on this last volume. 



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