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the manor in 1594 to Robert Paddon,' from whom 

 it was purchased in 1604 by Henry Best," who 

 immediately conveyed it to Arthur Swayne of Anne 

 Savage." In 1615 Edward Swayne of Anne Savage 

 died seised of Limborne, leaving a brother and heir 

 Robert," who conveyed the estate in 1 6 1 9 to William 

 Bunches and Thomas Southe," perhaps in trust for 

 sale, for Arthur Hyde was in possession in 1646," and 

 was succeeded in 1654 by Lawrence Hyde.' 6 Late 

 in the same century it seems to have become the pro- 

 perty of Sir John Stonehouse, with whose daughter 

 Elizabeth it passed in marriage to Thomas Jervoise of 

 Herriard," who conveyed it 

 to trustees, from whom it was 

 purchased in 1752 by Robert 

 Bold. 78 His son James died 

 without issue, and his co- 

 heiresses sold the manor to 

 John Knight, 79 who be- 

 queathed it to his two sons 

 John and William. 80 John 

 Knight, having purchased his 

 brother's moiety, in his will 

 dated 6 March, 1824, directed 

 that the whole manor should 

 be sold. It was purchased by 

 Messrs. Knight and Moore, 



who sold it in 1846 to Charles John Longcroft, 

 author of a history of the hundred of Bosmere, 81 in 

 whose family it still remains. 



The CHURCH OF ST. FAITH, 



CHURCHES HAVAN1, is an interesting cruciform 



building, with a vaulted chancel, 3 oft. 



6 in. by 19 ft. 3 in. ; north vestry and south organ 

 chamber ; central tower, 1 8 ft. 7 in. square ; north 

 transept, 21 ft. gin. by 1 9 ft. 6 in. with north 

 porch and west aisle, 1 3 ft. wide ; south transept of 

 practically the same dimensions ; and nave 55 ft. 

 long by 19 ft. 3 in., with north and south aisles 



7 ft. 6 in. wide. 8 * 



The oldest architectural details date from the end 

 of the twelfth century, and are to be seen in the 

 tower, transepts, and nave. The chancel belongs to 

 the first quarter of the thirteenth century, the north 

 vestry to the fourteenth, while the stair-turret at the 

 north-east angle of the tower is a fifteenth-century 

 addition. There was no doubt an earlier church on 

 the site. From a note on the destruction of the 

 nave in 1832, it appears that a concrete foundation 

 of Roman brick and cement underlay the pillars, and 

 several Roman coins were found during the work. 

 The only feature in the present building which sug- 

 gests the incorporation of work older than the end of 

 the twelfth century is the fact that the west wall of the 

 tower is 6 in. thinner than the others, and may there- 

 fore represent the east wall of an earlier nave. The 

 unusual western aisles to the transepts (if indeed they 

 are contemporary with the transepts) may owe their 

 existence to some previous arrangement. The whole 

 building has been much repaired ; in 1832 the nave 

 arcades were taken down, apparently to give more 



room for galleries, and the nave practically rebuilt. 

 In 1874 the central tower was found to be unsafe, 

 perhaps by reason of the loss of abutment brought 

 about by the destruction of the nave arcades, and it 

 was taken down, except the north-east stair-turret, 

 and rebuilt with the old materials. A plaster ceiling 

 which hid the vaulted roof of the chancel was taken 

 away, an organ-chamber added at the south-west of 

 the chancel, and the nave was entirely rebuilt on the 

 old lines, the capitals being copied from a late twelfth- 

 century capital belonging to the nave destroyed in 

 1832, and now reset on the first pillar from the east 

 in the south arcade. The chancel is of two bays with 

 a quadripartite stone vault with moulded ribs spring- 

 ing from Purbeck marble corbels, the rubble filling of 

 the vault being set in courses parallel to the ridge. 

 The east window is a modern triplet of lancets, but 

 in the north wall the original lancet window remains 

 in the east bay, blocked on the outside by the four- 

 teenth-century vestry. In the west bay on this side 

 is a fifteenth-century window of three cinquefoiled 

 lights with tracery in the head, set somewhat to the 

 west in the bay in order to clear the west wall of 

 the vestry. 



In the south wall is a fifteenth-century window of 

 two cinquefoiled lights with tracery in the head, and 

 below it modern sedilia and piscina, with a small south 

 doorway to the west of them, also of modern stone- 

 work. In the west bay on this side is a modern arch 

 opening to the organ-chamber. The vestry on the 

 north of the chancel opens to it by a plain fourteenth- 

 century doorway, and has also a modern external 

 doorway at the north-west. It is lighted on the east 

 by a fourteenth-century window of two trefoiled 

 lights, and in the north gable is a second window, 

 much restored, set at a height which suggests that the 

 vestry once had an upper floor. 



The four arches carrying the central tower are 

 pointed, of two orders with edge-chamfers, the outer 

 orders on the west side of the east and west arches 

 having a keeled roll between hollows, as being those 

 which are most conspicuous from the nave. Their 

 capitals are scalloped and of late twelfth-century type, 

 and the jambs have half-round shafts to the inner 

 orders, flanked by fine Purbeck marble nook-shafts, 

 while the responds of the north and south arches are 

 of plain half-round section, and have modern foliate 

 capitals. The rood-loft was set against the east arch, 

 and the fifteenth-century stair leading to it still exists 

 at the north-east angle of the tower, and is continued 

 upwards to the battlements. The upper stage of 

 the tower has in each face a belfry window of two 

 pointed lights divided by a shaft with base and capital 

 of late twelfth-century style, and the level of the 

 eaves or parapet of this date is shown by a row of 

 corbels projecting from the wall. The tower has been 

 heightened, and now ends with an embattled parapet, 

 the turret being carried up above it and having a like 

 finish. 



The north transept has an early sixteenth-century 

 east window of three cinquefoiled lights, and a north 



T Feet of F. Hants, Trin. 36 Eliz. 

 "! Close, 2 Jas. I, pt. iv. 

 ? 2 Ibid. pt. v. 



< 8 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), vol. 518, 

 No. 12. 



' Feet of F. Mich. 17 Jas. I. 

 7* Ibid. Mich. 22 Chas. I. 



7 s Ct. R. quoted by Longcroft, Hund. 

 of Bosmere, 152. 



77 Close, 5 Geo. II, pt. 9, m. 16 ; the 

 entail on the heirs of Elizabeth Stonehouse 

 having been barred i-i 1731. Recov. R. 

 East. 4 Geo. II, 213. 



78 Longcroft, Hund, of Bosmere, 152. 



125 



7 Feet of F. Hants, East. 22 Geo. III. 

 Trin. 27 Geo. Ill ; East 28 Geo. Ill ; 

 Hil. 31 Geo. III. 



80 Longcroft, Hund. of Bosmere, 152. 



Ibid. 



82 All measurements are internal. 



83 Longcroft, Hund, of Bosmere, 



