A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



Swayne of Hinton Daubnay, 159 from whom they passed 

 by sale, together with the manor of Hinton Daubnay, 

 to Sir Nicholas Hyde. 



The church of ST. KATHERl'NE 

 CHURCH has a chancel 25 ft. in length, continu- 

 ous with a nave of 52ft., the width 

 of both being 1 8 ft. 3 in. On the north side of the 

 chancel is a chapel 276. 3 in. by i6ft. 3 in., its east 

 wall being in a line with that of the chance!, and to 

 the south-west of the chancel is a vestry and organ 

 chamber 19 ft. deep by 1 3 ft. east to west. The nave 

 has north and south aisles, and a south-west tower 

 I oft. 4 in. square, all measurements being internal. 



The greater part of the building belongs to the end 

 of the twelfth century and the beginning of the 

 thirteenth, and, though doubtless developed from an 

 older church, gives but little evidence of its predeces- 

 sor's size and arrangements. The south arcade of the 

 nave and the south-west tower date probably from the 

 last decade of the twelfth century, and from the 

 evidence of the masonry seem to be contemporary 

 with each other. The older nave, probably of the 

 same width as the present, may at this time have been 

 lengthened by 1 2 ft. The rebuilding of the north 

 side of the church seems to have been undertaken 

 with little if any interval after the completion of the 

 tower and south arcade. If, as seems probable, the 

 older church had a chancel narrower than its nave, 

 it was now removed, the new work being built outside 

 its lines after the usual fashion. The north arcade 

 was set out to range with the south arcade, and con- 

 tinued eastward for two more bays, the eastern bay 

 being only half the width of the others. The north 

 aisle, which now runs as far west as the nave, 

 may have been in the first instance one bay shorter^ 

 and equal in length to the south aisle. The north 

 chapel appears to be contemporary with the arcade, 

 but its length has not been determined by the spacing 

 of the bays, or by any other obvious reason. 



In 1883 the building was extensively repaired, 

 3,086 being spent on the work. 



The chancel has an east window of three lights, 

 the rear arch having engaged shafts in the jambs and 

 a moulded head, c. 1300, while the tracery is of 

 fifteenth-century style. In the south wall is a 

 square-headed window of two cinquefoiled lights, of 

 late fifteenth-century date, and west of it a w'ide 

 modern arch to the organ chamber. In the south- 

 east corner of the chancel is a trefoiled piscina recess 

 with a srone shelf, of the same date as the rear arch of 

 the east window, but with a modern label. The 

 arcade on the north of the chancel is continuous with 

 that of the nave, and forms one design, the pillars 

 being alternately round and octagonal, the eastern 

 respond and the second and fourth pillars from the 

 east belonging to the octagonal type. The arches are 

 semicircular of two moulded orders, the inner with 

 an arris between two filleted rolls, and the outer 

 having single rolls, also filleted. The capitals and 

 bases are moulded, the section of the octagonal bases 

 differing from that of the round as regards the upper 

 member, which has a plain roll on the round bases, 

 and a half-octagonal one on the octagonal bases. The 

 capital of the western respond is unlike the rest, and 

 has a late type of scallop. It seems possible that the 

 first work, which, as already said, comprised the south 

 arcade and tower, and lengthening of the nave, may 



u Add. MS. 33278, fol. 150* ; Close, 42 Eliz. pt. 12. 



have also included the western respond of the north 

 arcade ; in any case the pause between the two works 

 can not have been a long one. 



The north chapel has two lancet windows in the 

 east wall, and between them on the site of the altar 

 stands the large monument of Nicholas Hyde, 1631 

 described below. Above it in the gable is a circular 

 window of the same date as the lancets, and the wall 

 is covered with modern painted decoration. In the 

 north wall are two windows, that to the east being of 

 two square-headed lights of no great age, but having a 

 moulded rear-arch and engaged jamb shafts like those 

 of the east window of the chancel, c. 1300. Below 

 its sill is a moulded string, with a carved head in the 

 middle of its length. The second window has two 

 modern uncusped lancet lights. 



The south arcade of the nave is of three bays with 



round pillars, scalloped capitals, and moulded bases 



and the arches are semicircular, of two moulded 



orders. The south aisle wall has no old features 



except the doorway at its west end, close to the 



tower; this has a semicircular head and rear-arch 



and nook-shafts on the outer face with foliate capitals' 



and is probably contemporary with the aisle. lw On 



the east face of the tower, against which the aisle 



abuts, is a raking weathering showing the line of the 



original roof, from which it appears that the walls 



over the south arcade and also the wall of the aisle 



were at first lower. The doorway must have been reset 



as its rear-arch is now too high to go under the line of 



the late twelfth-century roof, and the position of the 



eastern arch of the tower makes it unlikely that the 



aisle was ever narrower than at present. At the east 



end of the south aisle is an opening to the south 



chapel ; this has in its east wall a square-headed 



window of two trefoiled lights, perhaps c. 1340, and 



on the south a window of two cinquefoiled lights, also 



square-headed, of fifteenth-century date. 



All windows in both aisles of the church are 

 modern, and at the west end of the north arcade of 

 the nave is a modern arch of the same general detail 

 as the north arch of the tower, opening to the nave 

 from the west end of the aisle. In the north wall a 

 blocked doorway is to be seen, corresponding in 

 position with that in the south aisle. The south- 

 west tower is of three stages, the top stage being of 

 eighteenth-century date in red brick and embattled, 

 with a leaded cupola, while the lower stages, having 

 shallow clasping buttresses at the angles, belong to the 

 end of the twelfth century, and have small round- 

 headed lights on the south and west on the ground 

 and second stages. The tower opens to the nave by 

 plain pointed arches of two orders on the north and 

 east, 7 ft. and 4 ft. wide respectively, with chamfered 

 strings at the springing. The weathering already 

 noticed on its east face continues horizontally on 

 the north face, and shows that the original roof 

 of the nave was carried down in an unbroken line 

 over the south aisle. 



In the west wall of the nave is a plain pointed 

 thirteenth-century doorway with a moulded label, 

 and over it two lancets, with a circular window in 

 the gable, all the stonework in the windows being 

 modern. The church contains no ancient fittings, 

 but the nave roof is a fine specimen, with tiebeams 

 and collars, and curved struts and windbraces, and is 

 probably of fourteenth-century date. 



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140 On its outer face it an incited lun-dial. 



