A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



The chancel is the oldest part of the building, a 

 fine and well-proportioned piece of mid-thirteenth- 

 century work, with an east window unfortunately 

 reset in a very clumsy manner at an early Victorian 

 ' restoration.' It has four main lights uncusped, with 

 two quatrefoils over them, and a cinquefoil in the 

 head. In the north wall are three tall lancets, the 

 first two set near each other, with a greater space 

 between the second and third or western lancet, the 

 sill of which is lower than those of the others. On 

 the south side are three lancets similarly placed, with a 

 blocked priest's door 13 * between the second and third. 

 The latter is only visible on the outer face of the 

 wall, being blocked, and is much shorter than the 

 others, having below it a wide low side window of 

 two lights with shouldered heads, which seems to be 

 part of the original work. It has lost its central 

 mullion and, like the window over, is blocked, its 

 iron grate remaining in the blocking, and the hooks 

 for the shutters being still in position. At the south- 

 east of the chancel is a double piscina with trefoiled 

 arches, and under the east window in the north wall 

 a locker. There is no chancel arch. In the nave 

 the earliest feature is a two-light window in the south 

 wall with a trefoiled circle in the head, of late 

 thirteenth-century date; but with this exception every- 

 thing appears to belong to the first quarter of the 

 fourteenth century. The east window in the north 

 wall is of this date, with two trefoiled lights and a 

 quatrefoil in the head, and on either side of the plain 

 north doorway is a tall trefoiled single light. In the 

 south wall, west of the opening to the transept, is the 

 two-light thirteenth-century window already noted, 

 and west of it is a plain south doorway and a trefoiled 

 light like that on the north. The transept, whose 

 north arch is completely blocked by the organ, is of 

 about the same date as the fourteenth-century work 

 in the nave, and has a square-headed east window of 

 two trefoiled lights, and a south window, also of two 

 trefoiled lights, with a quatrefoil in the head. The 

 nave roof preserves some old timbers, but the tie- 

 beams are cased with modern boarding, and the 

 chancel roof is modern. The north porch has been 

 much repaired, but its main timbers are of fifteenth- 

 century work. The tower, which is entered from 

 the church by a plain chamfered doorway, has a plain 

 blocked west doorway, and standing near the western 

 boundary of the churchyard whence the ground falls 

 rapidly, shows signs of failure, its upper stages being 

 patched with brick and bound with iron tie-rods. 

 The belfry windows have therefore lost their original 

 detail, and the whole is very plain, but is of much the 

 same date as the nave. 



The font stands at the west end of the nave, and 

 is octagonal, with quatrefoiled panels on the bowl 

 inclosing alternately blank shields or paterae carved 

 with heads or foliage. Its date is c. 1400, and it 

 closely resembles the font at Idsworth a few miles 

 away. Both fonts have also been broken at the base 

 of the bowl, by tradition in the civil wars. 



The most interesting monument in the church is 

 that of Richard Ball, rector, who died in 1632. It 

 is on the north wall of the chancel close to the east 

 end, and shows a figure kneeling at a desk in the 

 gown of a bachelor of divinity of Oxford, beneath a 

 level cornice carried by Corinthian columns. On the 



184 It has an incised sun-dial on its arch, the external jambs 

 being modern. 



underside of the cornice and in a frame above are the 

 arms of Ball ; argent a lion sable, on a chief sable 

 three mullets argent. In the pavement at the south- 

 east angle of the nave is part of a fifteenth-century 

 slab with incised black letter inscription. In the 

 south-east window of the chancel are a few fragments 

 of late mediaeval glass, worked in with other pieces of 

 eighteenth-century date, several other pieces of the 

 latter occurring elsewhere in the church and the 

 north porch, and in the cinquefoil in the head of 

 the east window of the chancel. 



The plate consists of a communion cup and paten 

 of 1568, the cup having two bands of incised orna- 

 ment, a circular saucer with embossed ornament of 

 1662,3 cup of 1725, and a small paten of 1794. 

 There is also a modern plated flagon. The Eliza- 

 bethan paten and the saucer are not used, but kept 

 for safety in a London bank. There are three bells 

 the treble of 1674, with the name of John Fleet, 

 churchwarden, and the founder's initials W. E., the 

 second blank, and the tenor a mediaeval bell by 

 Roger Landon, inscribed Sancta Maria Ora Pro 

 Nobis, with Landon's lion's face, founder's shield, 

 groat, and cross. 



The registers might serve as a model for many 

 parishes. All are carefully and strongly bound up, 

 with a transcript in the same cover, and an index of 

 contents. The first book runs from 1538 to 1653, 

 with a gap 1641-7, the second from 1684 to 1746, 

 and the third, dealing with burials in woollen, from 

 1678 to 1746. The entries for the years between the 

 first and second volumes, 1653-84, are in a separate 

 book. The fourth and fifth books contain baptisms 

 and burials from 1747 to 1807, and marriages to 

 1753, the sixth is the printed book of marriages 

 1754-1812, and a seventh has the baptisms and 

 burials to 1812. 



The small church of ST. HUBERT, IDS- 

 (FORTH, stands in the middle of a field, at some 

 distance from the nearest road, and separated from 

 it by the shallow grass-grown channel of a periodical 

 stream known as the Lavant. 



It has a chancel 20 ft. 2 in. long and 1 6 ft. 2 in. 

 wide, and a nave 33 ft. 8 in. by 20 ft., with a wooden 

 bell-turret over the east end of the nave, and a west 

 porch of brick and flint. The north and west walls 

 of the nave are of twelfth-century date, and the 

 chancel, whose north wall is continuous with that of 

 the nave, is probably of the thirteenth century, 

 having been built round the twelfth-century chancel. 

 The width of the nave and chancel thus became 

 equal, and remained so till the nave was widened 

 southward in the sixteenth century, throwing the 

 west doorway and chancel arch out of centre with it. 

 A curious feature is the small twelfth-century arch, 

 only 2 1 in. wide, at the east end of the north wall of 

 the nave, and now blocked up. Its inner face is 

 hidden by the pulpit, which stands in the north-east 

 angle, and its original purpose can only be guessed at, 

 though it must have opened to some small building, 

 whether turret, porch, or chapel, set against the north 

 wall of the church. (See Hamble for a similar feature.) 



The east window of the chancel has lost its tracery 

 and is filled with a wooden frame, but the jambs and 

 rear arch are old, and are covered with fourteenth- 

 century paintings, figures of St. Peter and St. Paul on 

 the jambs, and two angels on the soffit of the arch. 

 In the south wall is a square-headed door, of no great 



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