ALTON HUNDRED 



HOLYBOURNE 



ment to Elizabeth Ady, 1675, and another to 

 Nicholas Stuart. 



The walls throughout are plastered within and 

 roughcast without, and the roofs are covered with 

 tile. Externally the church is remarkable for the 

 bell turret over the western gable, a beautiful 

 octagonal structure surmounted with a spire of 

 late fourteenth century work. 



The advowson appears to have belonged to the 

 owner of the manor from early times. Sir Patrick 

 Chaworth was found to be patron of the ' chapel ' 

 in iz83, 30 and the patronage passed to the Crown 

 in right of the duchy. The later history of the 

 advowson has not been traced, but in 1805 the 

 Rev. William Duke sold it to the Rev. Christopher 

 Taylor, 31 who together with Charles Arnold sold it 

 in 1 8 1 1 to Isaac Samuel Clamptree. 32 



In 1567 the parson, answering a complaint by 

 the farmer of the manor that he had cut wood 

 growing in Hartley Wood, stated that he and 

 his predecessors had, time out of mind, in the 

 right of the church, taken necessary fuel in the 

 said wood to be spent in the parsonage house, and 

 timber for the repair of that house and its out- 

 buildings. 33 



In the survey of 1591 the parsonage was valued 



at 50 a year. The glebe then consisted of an 

 orchard, garden, and certain closes of pasture land 

 and 12 acres of arable. It was also presented 

 ' that this parish hath a peculiar jurisdiction of 

 itself, within which the probates of testaments of 

 any dying, and the administrations also of any de- 

 ceased, are to be performed by the parson there for 

 the time, in as ample sort as the same might be per- 

 formed before any spiritual judge in such causes.' 34 



No mention has been found of a chantry within 

 the parish, but an acre of land called ' the lamp 

 acre,' in the surveys of 1553 and 1591, suggests 

 that this land had supported a light in the church. 35 



The parish registers prior to 1813 consist of two 

 volumes: i. 1672-1812, ii. 1804-11. There are 

 no churchwardens' account books. 



The church plate consists of a silver chalice, 

 with dome-shaped cover, a silver paten and a large 

 silver flagon, bearing the Stuart arms. 



There is no Nonconformist place of worship in 

 the parish. 



The National Church of England School was 

 built in 1869 (to replace a Dame School) by the 

 Rev. J. T. Plummer, then rector. 



There are no charities at present existing con- 

 nected with the parish. 



HOLYBOURNE 





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HoLVBOURNE VlLLAGE. 



Haliborne (xi. cent.), Halibourne (xiv. cent.), 

 Holybourne (xv. cent.), Holliborne (xvii. cent.). 

 This parish, which contains about 1,400 acres, 



is bounded on the north by Froyle, on the east by 

 Binsted and on the south and west by Alton ; the 

 northern branch of the river Wey flows through it 



30 Inq. p.m. 1 1 Edw. I. No. 35. 



31 Com. Picas, Recov. R. Mich. 46 

 Geo. III. Deeds Enrolled, m. 168. 



3" Ibid. East. 52 Geo. III. m. 5. 

 33 Duchy of Lane. Plead, vol. 68 

 M. S . 



34 Ibid. Misc. Bks. 1 1 6. 



35 Ibid, and 108. 



