A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



dc Gurdon for life, and Sir Adam exchanged it 

 for land in East Worldham with John de Venuz 

 son of the grantee. 48 In 1 341, on St. James's Day, 

 it was found that Nicholas de Venuz held it at the 

 time of his indictment for felony. 47 In 1363 

 it was found that this Nicholas, called son of 

 John de Venuz, died seized of it, held of the 

 king in chief by the service of being chief 

 forester of Woolmer Forest. He had the pro- 

 perty by the gift of his said father, with suc- 

 cessive remainders to Hugh his brother and 



CHANCEL FROM SOUTH TRANSEPT. 



his heirs, and Constance his sister, who was the 

 wife of John Marshal, and her heirs. The said 

 Nicholas and Hugh both died issueless and the pro- 

 perty descended to John Marshal son of the said 

 Constance, aged forty in 1363. 48 In 1387 Folley, 

 then described as a manor, was granted by the 

 Crown to John Weston of Chiltley and Elizabeth 

 his wife, who were at the same time pardoned for 

 having previously acquired the property of Walter 

 Marshal without obtaining the royal licence. 49 

 Two years later, in 1389, the same John Weston 

 and Elizabeth his wife acquired the manor to 

 themselves and their heirs of Walter Marshal of 



Somerley. 60 In 1 546 John Skullard acquired it 

 of John Freeland. 61 The subsequent descent of 

 the property has not been ascertained. 



The manor in 1341 is described as consisting of 

 a messuage, 60 acres of arable land, 128 acres of 

 several pasture, a vivary, and as having two free 

 tenants. 53 



Partially included in Bramshott parish, and ad- 

 joining to it, are the manors of Rogate-Bohunt 

 and Oakhanger. The former will be dealt with 

 in the topography for Sussex, and the latter in that 

 for Selborne Hundred. 



The church of St. Mary stands on 

 CHURCH rising ground on the east bank of a 

 tributary of the Wey, a quarter of a 

 mile from the main road from Portsmouth over 

 Hindhead. The walls are of sandstone rubble, 

 plastered, with ashlar dressings. The south tran- 

 sept walls are ashlar-faced externally. The roofs 

 are red-tiled. 



The church is cruciform, with a chancel, north 

 and south transepts, and central tower, and modern 

 nave, aisles and western porch. The interest of the 

 plan lies in the tower, which is narrower than either 

 chancel or transepts, and suggests the following 

 development : An early church with aisleless nave 

 and square chancel, which was enlarged about 1 220 

 by building, round the chancel, north and south 

 transepts and a larger chancel to the east, the old 

 chancel walls being pierced with arches on the east, 

 north and south, and carried up as a central tower. 53 

 The history of the nave has been destroyed by a 

 complete rebuilding in 1872. The transepts were 

 rebuilt on the old plan in the fifteenth cen- 

 tury. The chancel, measuring 22 ft. 3 in. by 19 ft. 

 8 in., dates from about 1220, and has three plain 

 lancets on the east and two on the north, with 

 a doorway in the middle of the south wall, of 

 original date. On either side of the doorway are 

 fifteenth century windows, squareheaded, of two 

 lights with tracery ; the main lights are remark- 

 able, having eight cusps in the heads instead of 

 the usual four. In the south wall, at the east 

 end, is a piscina with a corbelled bowl under a 

 plain arched recess. At both western angles of the 

 chancel are fifteenth century squints from the 

 transepts. The transepts are of equal size, 1 8 ft. 

 6 in. by 1 7 ft., high in proportion to their width. 

 Both have fifteenth century details and plinths, 

 and show no traces of earlier masonry, though 

 their plan is probably of the date of the chancel. 

 They open to the central tower by inserted arches 

 of two orders with hollow chamfers, with octagonal 

 caps, responds and bases, of a local type, which 

 is not earlier than the end of the fourteenth 

 century. The north transept has a three-light 

 north window and a two-light east window, the 

 sill of the latter having been carried down to form 

 an altar-recess, now blocked. A piscina remains 

 to the south in the east wall. Originally there 



' Anct. D. (P.R.O.), A. 3,231 



47 Inq. p.m. 15 Edw. III. 2nd not. 



No. 46. 

 Ibid. 37 Edw. III. ist nos. No. 



70. 



49 Pat. 10 Rich. II. pt. i, m. 2. 



50 Feet of F. Hants, case 28, No. 50. 

 81 Ibid. Mich. 38 Hen. VIII. 



494 



61 Inq. p.m. 15 Edw. III. 2nd nos. 

 No. +6. 



53 Compare Godalraing Church, Sur- 

 rey, for a parallel case. 



