A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



debts and small means, sold it to Richard Norton in 

 1560.** The latter died in 1592 seised of the manor 

 of Oures which formed part of the jointure of his wife 

 Katherine," who was holding the manor in i6o2. M 

 By 1610 Richard Norton, the son of Katherine, was 

 holding the manor, and made a settlement by fine in 

 that year entailing it on his heirs male by his wife 

 Anne. 69 From this time the manor followed the 

 same descent as the manor of East Tisted (q.v.), 

 passing from the Nortons to the Paulets and from the 

 Paulets to the Scotts. However, not all the manor of 

 Oures passed from the Paulets to the Scotts in 1808. 

 ' The farm and lands called the Manor farm part of 

 the manor of Noar aliat Temple Noar alias Ower 

 alias Temple Sothington M held by copy of court roll 

 of the said manor according to the custom of the manor,' 

 remained in the hands of the marquis of Winchester 

 until purchased by James Winter Scott in l86o. 61 



The customs of the manor still hold good, and a 

 court baron is held by the steward for the admission 

 of a copyhold tenant. The fine on entry is paid 

 accordingly, and the heriot is commuted by a fine of 

 about 1 5A 6 * However, most of the copyholds are 

 being enfranchised. A perambulation of the bounds 

 of the parish made in 1735 and entered on the court 

 rolls gives many interesting place-names that still 

 survive. The perambulation starts from Hatch Gate 

 near Gallows Hill or Callers Hill, turns down Bottom 

 Lane, then also called Westcroft Lane, passing by 

 ' Fatting Leaze Land Gate ' to Selborne ; thence 

 skirting round to the south to Hale Coppice, to Tile 

 Croft, and into Goley or Goleigh Hill Lane, then east 

 to Empshott Common Field round by Noar Hill 

 Farm again into Galley Lane. 63 



The church of ST. MART stands in 

 CHURCH the park in the south-east of the parish. 

 A shady road branching to the left from 

 the village street leads to the lych gate, which is the 

 first sign of the church still hidden from view by the 

 large yew tree on the left side of the path inside the 

 churchyard. Under the tree a demarcation in the 

 ground is all that remains to show the spot where 

 once stood a tombstone to Colonel Phayre, one of 

 Charles I's regicides. He is said to have lived 

 at Cobden's farm-house at Empshott, but to have been 

 ! buried at Newton Valence. Although many people 

 remember the tombstone with the name clearly in- 

 scribed upon it, it has now curiously enough disap- 

 peared. Either it was accidentally removed during 

 the restoration of the church in 1872, or a snowstorm 

 caused it to fall and then it was carried away, but no 

 one knows where or how. A pathway of old tomb- 

 stones, with the inscriptions worn away and unde- 

 cipherable, leads to the church porch. The church 

 is a small building consisting of nave and chancel of 

 equal width, and with no structural division, 19 ft. 

 2 in. wide by 48 ft. 6 in. long ; a north chapel 9 ft. 

 4 in. by 1 6 ft. 9 in. at the west of the nave, a west 

 tower, and a small vestry on the south of the chancel. 

 Its plan, as first built c. 1220, was a simple rectangle, 

 the present nave and chancel. The north chapel was 

 added at the end of the same century, and the south 

 vestry is modern. The tower is obscured with ivy 



and plastering, and its date not easy to determine, 

 but it is probably an addition to the original plan. 

 The material of the building is the local whitish lime- 

 stone, used as ashlar for dressings and uncoursed rubble 

 for the walling, and the roofs are tiled. The masonry 

 details are plain but well designed. 



The chancel has a triplet of lancets in the east wall, 

 and two lancets in the north and south walls. A roll 

 string runs at the level of the sills inside, and stops on 

 the south side over the head of the priest's doorway, 

 west of the second lancet on this side. On the north 

 it continues westward, ending under the first window 

 of the nave. All windows in the north and south 

 walls have flat sills inside, with chamfered rear arches, 

 and on the outside all have a chamfer and a reveal for 

 a frame. The priest's doorway has a segmental inner 

 arch, and pointed outer arch of two chamfered orders; 

 it now opens to a vestry, but was at first external, and 

 two sundials are cut on its east jamb. The nave has 

 on the north side one original lancet, the rest of the 

 north wall being occupied by the arch leading to the 

 north chapel ; while on the south side are three lancet 

 windows with a doorway to the west of them, but of 

 these only the first lancet from the east is ancient, the 

 other two, with the doorway, being entirely modern. 

 The west wall of the nave was rebuilt in 1812. The 

 north chapel, 9 ft. 4 in. by 1 6 ft. gin. long, contains 

 nothing ancient beyond a piscina in its east wall, of 

 late thirteenth-century date, with engaged shafts and 

 moulded capitals and arch, and a stone shelf in the 

 recess over the drain. There are lancet windows in 

 the east and west walls, and in the north wall a two- 

 light window with a quatrefoil over, all of which are 

 modern. The arch to the nave is of two chamfered 

 orders, and though apparently modern springs at the 

 east from a moulded half-octagonal corbel of the end 

 of the thirteenth century, and at the west from a 

 respond and moulded half capital of similar but not 

 identical detail, which is either retooled or modern. 



The west tower, loft. loin, by 1 1 ft. 9 in., opens 

 to the nave by a continuous arch of two chamfered 

 orders, probably of fifteenth-century date. On the 

 ground stage is a blocked west doorway, which has an 

 outer arch with the fifteenth-century double ogee 

 moulding, and in the north and south walls are small 

 lancets. A few feet above them are other small 

 lancets, narrower than those below, and at this level 

 are similar windows in the east and west walls. 

 These four windows point to the former existence of 

 a floor or gallery in the tower about halfway between 

 the present first floor and the ground level. At a higher 

 level in the west wall is another lancet lighting the 

 present floor, and in the belfry stage are four plain 

 arched openings without mouldings or tracery, filled 

 with wooden luffers. These, with a plain parapet at 

 the top of the tower, are built with brick dressings, 

 and date 64 from a reconstruction in 1812, when a 

 ' cupola ' of wood on the tower was taken down. 

 Externally the tower is plastered with cement, and the 

 lower part overgrown with ivy, and the date of this 

 part is difficult to determine, the stonework of the 

 small lancets being for the most part either modern or 

 retooled. 



64 Deeds in the possession of Mr. Archi- 

 bald Edward Scott of Rotherfield Park. 



'7 Inq. p. m. 34 Eliz. pt. 2 (Ser. 2), 

 No. n 8. 



68 Add. Chart. 27994. 



Feet of F. Div. Cos. Mich. 8 Jas. I. 



60 This must be an inaccuracy, since 

 Temple Sotherington is absolutely distinct 

 from Noar manor. 



61 Documents ferns Mr. A. E. Scott. 



6a Information from Mr. A. M. Downie, 

 steward of the manor. 



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68 Court Roll in possession of Mr. A. M. 

 Downie, steward of the manor. 



M Faculty of i July, 1812, in the 

 possession of the vicar, the Rev. A. C. 

 Maclachlan. 



