A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



and is covered by a mean brick porch built by Magda- 

 len College, Oxford, in 1750. In the north wall is 

 a single window, a trefoiled fourteenth-century light 

 close to the line of the former east wall of the nave, 

 and opposite to it in the south wall is a trefoiled 

 piscina of about the same date, with a stone shelf, 

 marking the site of the south nave altar. Close to 

 the piscina is a square-headed fifteenth-century window 

 of three cinquefoiled lights, and the western part of 

 the nave is lighted only by an early fourteenth-century 

 window in the west wall, of two trefoiled lights with 

 a quatrefoil over. The bell-turret is carried on four 

 wooden posts, rising from the floor of the church at 

 the west end of the nave, set close to the walls ; they 

 formerly carried a west gallery which is now taken 

 down, the only access to the turret being by a trap 

 door in the ceiling. The chancel is a poor specimen 

 of modern fifteenth-century Gothic with a three-light 

 east window and two two-light windows in the south 

 wall. At its north-west angle is a door leading to a 

 small modern vestry. 



The timbers of the nave roof and bell-turret are 

 old, but all other fittings are modern except the 

 seventeenth-century altar table with its baluster legs, 

 and the font, which stands in front of the blocked 

 north door, and is perfectly plain with a round bowl 

 on a roughly worked stem of uncertain date though 

 ancient. In the face of the east jamb of the south 

 doorway is a recess for holy water, the position being 

 somewhat unusual. 



There are a few mural monuments of the Tichborne 

 family on the north wall of the nave, to Sir Benjamin 

 Tichborne, 1665, Margaret his wife, 1671, and 

 Margaret Tichborne, 1672, and a tablet to Richard 

 Lacy, 1690. The plate consists of a cup and cover 

 paten of 1568, with incised ornament round the top 

 and base of the bowl, the paten being plain, and a 

 second paten with a foot bearing the date-letter for 

 1723. There are two small bells in the bell-turret, 

 said to be uninscribed. 



The first book of the registers contains the baptisms 

 from 1560 to 1747, the marriages from 1538 to 1740, 

 and the burials from 1538 to 1755, and the second 

 the remaining entries to 1812, but there are no 

 entries of marriages between 1740 and 1754. 



There was a church in West 

 ADrOWSON Tisted at the time of the Domesday 

 Survey, but it is not stated whether 

 the bishop held the advowson as well as the manor. 66 

 In all probability he did, for Peter des Roches in 

 1237 confirmed the grant of the advowson 67 made by 

 Joan le Hood a year before to the prior and canons 

 of Selborne. 6s Ralph de Camois claimed the advowson 

 in virtue of his lordship of the manor of West Tisted, 

 and presented Master John de Brideport, clerk, to the 

 living. His claim was disputed by the prior and 

 canons of Selborne, and Ccnstantine de Mildehale, 

 the official of Boniface archbishop of Canterbury in 



" V.C.H. Hants, i, 463. 



" Selborne Chart. (Hanti Rec. Soc.), zi. 



68 Ibid. 20. 



Ibid. 54. 



Ibid. 

 Ibid. 70. 

 Ibid. 71. 



the diocese of Winchester, during the vacancy of the 

 see, arbitrated between the disputants in I26I. 63 

 His decree assigned the patronage absolutely to the 

 prior and canons as having been given to them by 

 Peter des Roches; but inasmuch as Selborne was en- 

 dowed with goods issuing from the manor, and in 

 order that Ralph might be duly honoured by the 

 prior and canons, he ordained that Ralph and his heirs 

 should always have the right of presenting one fit 

 clerk to be admitted as a canon into the convent, who 

 should there celebrate for the souls of Ralph, his 

 ancestors and successors. Constantine also decreed 

 that the prior and convent should pay loot, annually 

 to Master John de Brideport until they procured his 

 promotion to some better ecclesiastical benefice. In 

 1261 Ralph released all right in the advowson and 

 patronage of the church of West Tisted. 70 Four 

 years later the prior and convent of St. Swithun's, 

 Winchester, confirmed Peter des Roches' charter con- 

 firming Joan le Hood's grant of the advowson 

 to Selborne together with some lands, 'saving an 

 honest and sufficient maintenance to the vicar.' 71 

 In 1282 John archbishop of Canterbury confirmed 

 the appropriation of the church to the prior and 

 canons in consequence of their request made to him 

 when at their house in the course of his metropolitical 

 visitation during the vacancy of the see of Winchester. 

 In 1284 Geoffrey de la Flode and Alice his wife 

 and Richard de Crofton released all claim to the 

 advowson, which remained in the possession of 

 Selborne Priory till 1484. In that year the priory 

 was dissolved, and the advowson of West Tisted was 

 among the possessions which were annexed to Mag- 

 dalen College, Oxford, 74 the president and fellows 

 of which still hold the advowson. Magdalen College 

 often let out the rectory and tithes of West Tisted at 

 farm. It was the rule to give the preference to a 

 fellow of the college, and owing to this custom a 

 dispute arose in the reign of Henry VIII. 

 Early in 1528 when the parsonage was unlet and in 

 the hands of Master Thomas Knollys, the president of 

 the college, Nicholas Tichborne, lord of the manor 

 of West Tisted, asked him for a ten years' lease of the 

 rectory and tithes. Thomas agreed to let them to 

 him for that time, and it was arranged that on 

 Lammas Day, 1528, either Nicholas or his messenger 

 should go to Oxford to get the lease under the 

 common seal of the president and scholars. Nicholas 

 sent his brother Roger Tichborne, but when he 

 arrived he found they were already let to Richard 

 Cressweller, a fellow of the college. Nicholas was 

 naturally annoyed when he heard the news, but 

 nevertheless he suffered Richard to occupy the rectory 

 for two years. On Michaelmas Day, 1531, however, 

 they met at West Tisted and had a violent quarrel, 

 and this quarrel culminated on 3 April, 1533, in a 

 fight between the two parties at West Tisted parsonage, 

 with what result, however, is unknown. 



Ibid. 58. (Rec. Com.), ii, 284. Selborne Chart. 



(Hants Rec. Soc.), 147. 



? 5 Star Chamb. Proc. bdle. n, No. 36, 

 179. Valor Eccl. and bdle. 22, No. 62. 



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