ALTON HUNDRED WEST WORLDHAM 



the north are one ot a cinquefoiled light, under 

 which is a square locker, and another west of it, being 

 an original pointed lancet. The division between 

 chancel and nave was formerly marked by a screen, 

 against which stood two altars. The place of these 

 is shown by the piscince in the side walls, that on 

 the north has a projecting basin and over it an 

 original lancet window. The south window is a 

 cinquefoiled light with a segmental rear arch, an 

 insertion of the fifteenth century, like that east of 

 it. The south doorway is contemporary with the 

 church, and has a pointed arch of two orders. 

 There is also a north door of the same date, of 

 one order only, and now blocked. The west wall 

 has a fifteenth century window, now filled with three 

 modern round-headed lights, in which are inserted 

 some pretty floral quarries of the seventeenth cen- 

 tury. One of these has the motto : Comcientia 

 mea miki sufficit, and the date 1653. Another 

 bears a shield of the arms of [RENNET ?] ; gules a 

 bezant between three demi-Rons of silver. 



All the fittings, including the font, together 

 with the floor and roof, date from the reparation 

 of 1888. On the walls are tablets to William 



Hammond, sen., 1790 ; Elizabeth, daughter of 

 John and Elizabeth Hammond, 1795, also Char- 

 lotte, ob. 1834, an d Margaret, ob. 1846 ; and to 

 William Hammond, 1781, his son John, 1787, 

 and wife Ann. 



Externally the walls are roughcast with fire- 

 stone dressings and the roof is tiled. The south 

 doorway 17 is covered by an old wooden porch, 

 perhaps of the fifteenth century. On the western 

 wall is a modern bell gable containing one small 

 bell. 



The church is now used as a mortuary chapel 

 and for occasional services. 



There is only one parish register before 1813, 

 which begins in 1653. There is no old church- 

 wardens' book. 



The church plate consists of a silver paten in- 

 scribed 'West Worldham 1723,' a white metal 

 chalice and a modern silver chalice of Italian make. 



The population is not large enough to require 

 a separate school for the children of the parish, 

 and they attend the school at Hartley Mauditt. 



There are no charities at the present time con- 

 nected with the parish. 



17 In the east jamb of this are incised several so-called ' consecration crosses.' 



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