A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



changed it for land in Sussex with Thomas Knight 

 of Chawton, in whose family it has since remained. 28 



There was a market held in Neatham at the 

 time of Domesday. 29 



The deponents in an Exchequer suit as to tithes, 

 about I6Z7, 30 state that the demesnes of Neatham 

 adjoin, on the east, the common fields of Binsted, 

 on the south the common fields of Worldham, on 

 the west the common fields of Alton, and on the 

 north the common fields of Holybourne. Part 

 of the land held of the manor of Neatham lay in 

 the common fields of Holybourne, intermixed with 

 land held of the manor of Alton. Some of the 

 deponents doubted if any part of the manor of 

 Neatham lay in Alton parish. The depositions 

 seem to have been in a suit, brought very shortly 

 before, by Viscount Montagu, lord of the manor 

 of Neatham, against the vicar of the parish of 

 Alton (with the chapelries of Binsted, Holybourne 

 and Kingsley annexed), as to tithes from part of 

 Neatham manor. 31 



Tithe is still paid on Bonham's farm to Mr. 

 Montagu G. Knight as successor of the original 

 grantee of the possessions of Waverley Abbey in 

 Neatham ; the trustees of the Algebra Lecture at 

 Cambridge also receive tithe from Neatham. 32 



Holybourne was a chapelry of Alton and was 

 therefore included in the Conqueror's grant of the 

 church of Alton to Hyde Abbey, Winchester (vide 

 Alton). 



In 1250 the Bishop of Winchester and Peter de 

 Ryeval, rector of the church of Alton, gave per- 

 mission for an oratory to be used to celebrate 

 divine service at Neatham Grange without ring- 

 ing of bells, but all the servants at the grange were 

 to resort to the chapel of Holybourne for hearing 

 divine service and receiving the sacraments. An 

 indemnity to the mother church of Alton and 

 the chapel of Holybourne was reserved. 33 This 

 appears to have been I o marks paid yearly to the 

 abbot of Hyde. 34 



After the dissolution of the monasteries, the 

 chapelry of Holybourne was included in the grant 

 of the rectory of Alton to the Dean and Chapter 

 of Winchester by Henry VIII. 35 It was served 

 from Alton Church as late as 1830, but since then 

 it has been held as a separate vicarage under the 

 patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Winchester. 



In 1875 the Ecclesiastical Commissioners granted 

 to the incumbent of Holybourne and his successors 

 a yearly stipend of 195 out of their common 

 fund and a capital sum of 500 towards defraying 

 the cost of providing a parsonage house, which has 

 not yet been done, and the sum remains in the 

 hands of the Commissioners. 



The church of the Holy Rood 



CHURCH stands on rising ground a quarter of a 



mile north of the main road. On the 



south boundary of the churchyard is a pool fed by 

 the spring from which the village takes its name. 

 The church is built of sandstone rubble with ashlar 

 dressings, and has red-tiled roofs. It consists of a 

 chancel of the thirteenth century with modern 

 north chapel, a twelfth century nave with modern 

 north aisle replacing one of the fifteenth century, 

 and a twelfth century western tower with shingled 

 wooden spire. 



The chancel is as wide as the nave, 38 and has a 

 three-light fifteenth century east window flanked 

 by two square-headed recesses for images. In the 

 north wall are three windows : a two-light four- 

 teenth century window nearest the east, a thirteenth 

 century lancet in the middle, and a small lancet, 

 also of the thirteenth century, low in the wall, at 

 the west, having a groove for glass, and, in com- 

 mon with all the other windows of the chancel, 

 a flat sill. In its western splay is a squint from 

 the north aisle, in the head of which some twelfth 

 century stones are inserted. In the centre of the 

 south wall is a thirteenth century lancet ; to the 

 east a two-light fifteenth century window, its sill 

 destroying the head and half the shafts of a thir- 

 teenth century piscina ; the bowl remains, flanked 

 by the circular moulded bases and stumps of the 

 shafts ; at the west end of this wall is a two-light 

 fourteenth century window like that in the north 

 wall. The chancel arch is of two chamfered 

 orders with shallow octagonal responds without 

 capitals : it is largely a modern restoration. 



The nave walls are of the twelfth century, 

 heightened in the fifteenth, when the north arcade 

 was built and the present roof put on. The arcade 

 is of two bays with octagonal pillars and arches 

 of two chamfered orders. The north aisle is 

 modern, having been rebuilt, not for the first 

 time, in 1879. In the south wall of the nave are 

 three square-headed fifteenth century windows, 

 and the lower part of the jambs of the original 

 south doorway which has long been blocked. Some 

 early thirteenth century detail (two stones of an 

 arch with large dog-tooth ornaments) is worked 

 into the blocking. At the east end of the south 

 wall is a narrow trefoiled niche for an image in 

 connection with the south nave altar. The 

 fifteenth century nave roof has tie-beams with 

 braces and jacklegs resting on well carved stone 

 corbels ; there are arched braces to the collars and 

 the purlins are strutted. 



The tower is of three stages, of plain and rather 

 late twelfth century work, altered in the latter 

 half of the fifteenth century. The east arch is of 

 one square order, pointed, with no capital or 

 string, and is not of the original date. 



The western doorway is modern and over it is 

 a twelfth century light, altered in the fifteenth cen- 

 tury. The windows on the second stage are plain 



28 The information at to the descent 

 after 1633 it supplied by the present 

 lord of the manor from documents in 

 hit possession. 



V.C.H. Hantt, i. 450. 

 80 Exch. Depot, 2 Chat. I. Mich, 25 

 Exch. B. & A. Hantt, Jat. I. No. 

 335- 



32 Information supplied by the pre- 

 tent lord of the manor. The tithes of 

 Holybourne and Neatham are dealt with 

 by Feet of F. Div. Cot. Mich. 19 Chas. 

 II. ; Mich, zo Chat. II. ; Eatt. 23 Chat. 

 II. j and Hil. 26, 27 Chat. II. 



33 Annalet Monastic! (Rolls Seriei), 

 ii. 342. 



3 Pat. 28 Hen. VIII. pt. 2, m. 9. 



3 S Pat. 33 Hen. VIII. pt. 9, m. J. 



38 Having doubtless been built round 

 the original twelfth century chancel in 

 the usual way. 





