A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



was in the hands of the Crown, probably by the 

 attainder of Edmund, Duke of Suffolk, grandson of 

 the above-mentioned earl. 



After this the two manors of East Worldham 

 and Wt Worldham appear to have been treated 



HAMMOND'S FARM. 



as one manor. 



We find they were so leased in 

 1576 to Henry Aud'ey. 14 The descent of West 

 Worldham from this date follows that of East 

 Worldham (q.v.) through the Stawells and Legges 

 to Henry John Button, J.P. of Hin- 

 ton Ampner, who is the present lord 

 of the manor and sole owner of the 

 parish. 



There are rent rolls but no court 

 rolls of the manor in the possession 

 of the lord of the manor. 



The manor house, now called 

 Hammond's farm, has the date 1652 

 cut on a stone tablet over the front 

 doorway, and stands, a short distance 

 from the church, on the right hand 

 side of the road to Hartley Mauditt. 

 On a barn belonging to the farm are 

 two stone tablets inscribed 'W.H. 

 1768' and 'Rebuilt J.H. 1832,' 

 which refer to the works of the 

 Hammond family, who occupied the 

 house for several generations, and to 

 members of which there are several monumental 

 tablets in the church. 



At the end of the twelfth century 

 Richard de Annecy gave the church of 

 St. Nicholas of Worldham to Ramble 

 Priory, a cell of the Benedictine Abbey of Tiron 

 near Chartres. After the dissolution of the alien 

 priories in 1 41 4 the church of West Worldham was 

 purchased, with other possessions of Hamble Priory, 



by William of Wykeham, who added it to the endow- 

 ment of Winchester College. 15 In 1358 the glebe 

 and tithe had been leased by the Prior of Hamble 

 to Thomas Wayte, clerk, for ten years, the tenant 

 being required to keep the fabric of the church in 

 order and be responsible for the 

 usual services. Subsequent leases 

 were granted by Winchester Col- 

 lege, a stipend of 10 being re- 

 served for the incumbent, if he 

 was not the lessee, up to 1588, 

 when a renewal of the lease to 

 the Rev. Guy Dobbins, a fellow 

 of the college, was the subject of 

 legal proceedings by the incum- 

 bent, William Griffiths, in which 

 it was stated that the fabric of the 

 church was out of repair and the 

 services not regularly performed. 16 

 During the nineteenth century 

 the church had again become 

 ruinous and the services were in- 

 terrupted, but the building was 

 eventually restored in 1888 by 

 the governors of Winchester Col- 

 lege, the owners of the great tithes, 

 in accordance with the terms of 

 the original gift by Richard de 

 Annecy to the Prior of Hamble. 

 The advowson is still held by 

 Winchester College, and the living 

 is a perpetual curacy of the gross 

 value of 8j with 3 acres of glebe. There is 

 no vicarage, as the living, since the sixteenth 



century, has generally been 

 Hartley Mauditt. 



held by the rector of 



CHURCH 



ST. NICHOLAS' CHURCH. 



The church of St. Nicholas stands in plan a 

 simple parallelogram about 44 ft. long and 1 8 ft. 

 wide, of late Norman date. The east end contains 

 a three-light fifteenth century window with tracery, 

 but originally there was a triplet of lancets with a 

 round window over in the gable. To the south of 

 the altar is a two-light window, also of the fifteenth 

 century, with drain under, and west of it a single 

 cinquefoiled light. The corresponding windows on 



Harl. Ch. 83, H. 16. 



16 Winchester College, by ICirby, p. 24. 

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18 Hants Notes and Queries, v. 15. 



