A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



window with modern stonework of three cinque- 

 foiled lights and tracery of fifteenth-century style. 

 Both transepts have the unusual addition of a western 

 aisle, that in the north transept having an arcade 

 of two bays in late fifteenth-century style with 

 moulded arches and octagonal columns. It is 

 lighted by a west window of two uncusped lights, 

 perhaps fifteenth-century work with the cusps cut 

 away, and is entered at the north end through a 

 modern porch and doorway, over which is a window, 

 also modern. 



The south transept has no window on the east, its 

 place being taken by an arch opening to the modern 

 organ-chamber. 



Its south window is of three lights and modern, and 

 in the west aisle, which is separated from the transept 

 by a modern arcade of like detail with that in the 

 north transept, is a fifteenth-century south window of 

 three cinquefoiled lights with tracery over, and a 

 round-headed west window of late twelfth-century 

 date. This if in position shows that the west aisles 

 are contemporary with the rest of the transepts. In 

 the nave the eastern responds of the late twelfth-cen- 

 tury arcades remain in position, and as before noted 

 the capital of the first column of the south arcade is 

 in part original work re-used. The rest of the arcades 

 are modern, but old material is worked into the west 

 respond of the south arcade. The clearstory has 

 round windows enclosing quatrefoils or cinquefoils. 

 The height of the original nave roof may be recovered 

 from openings on the west face of the tower below 

 the present roof, one in the centre being a round- 

 headed doorway formerly opening on to the nave 

 roof, while on either side of it at a higher level 

 are two blocked pointed windowi which looked over 

 the roof. 



Into the west wall of the nave is built a Purbeck 

 marble slab with a curved lower edge, on which is 

 carved in twelfth-century style a lion between two 

 rosettes. It is perhaps part 

 of a font. The existing font, 

 which stands near the west 

 door of the nave, was made 

 in 1847. 



None of the wood fittings 

 of the church are old, and the 

 only monument of interest is 

 the fine brass of Thomas Aile- 

 ward, rector, who died 6 April, 

 1413. His effigy is shown in 

 a cope, fastened with a morse, 

 bearing his initials T. A., while 

 on the orphreys are sheaves, 

 roses, and fleurs-de-lis. The sheaves are taken from 

 his arms, which are shown on the only remaining one of 

 the four shields which formerly surrounded the effigy 

 and inscription. The inscription ends with the couplet: 



Sis testis Christe quod non jacet hie lapis iste 

 Corpus ut ornetur sed mors ut permedicetur. 



Thomas Aileward was rector 13971413, and was 

 chaplain to William of Wykeham, becoming his execu- 

 tor and biographer. 



AIHWARD. Sable a 

 chmeron between three 

 shtavet tr. 



In the central tower is a ring of eight bells, the 

 treble and second given by Sir F. W. Fitzwygram in 

 1876, the third, fourth, fifth, and tenor being cast in 

 1714, the seventh in 1723, and the sixth recast in 

 1896. 



The plate is modern, comprising a communion cup 

 of 1825, and a cup, flagon, two plates, and glass flagon 

 with silver stopper of more recent date. 



The registers begin in 1653, the first book con- 

 taining baptisms to 1703, marriages to 1726, and 

 burials to 1731. The second contains the burials in 

 woollen, 1678-1730, and the third the burials from 

 1730-1812. The fourth contains baptisms 1713- 

 1812, and marriages 1730-54, and there is also 

 a list of inductions of the rectors from 1618 to 

 1892. The fifth book is the printed marriage 

 register 1754-93, and the sixth continues the 

 marriages to 1812. 



The oldest book of accounts runs from 1719 to 

 1748 and the vestry minutes from 1834 onwards are 

 preserved. 



There is no mention of a church in the Domesday 

 Survey of Havant, though one of the two churches 

 included in the survey of Warblington may have been 

 at Havant. 



The CHURCH OF ST. JOHN is of flint in the 

 Norman style, consisting of small chancel, nave, tran- 

 septs, and aisles. The register of baptisms dates from 

 1841, and of burials from 1842. 



The advowson of the church of 

 JDfOffSONS St. Faith was, like the manor, a 

 possession of the monks of St. 

 Swithun, and was transferred with the manor to 

 the bishop, in whose gift it has been ever since. 81 

 Under Bishop Stratford inquisition was made for the 

 ordination of Havant vicarage, 85 but no appropriation 

 seems to have taken place, for the living was and is 

 still a rectory. 8 * The rector had peculiar jurisdiction 

 in the parish, 87 but these rights were virtually abolished 

 early in the last century. 88 There was also a rectory 

 manor the lands of which are now practically en- 

 franchised. 89 Special privileges had been attached to 

 the church before the reign of Henry I, who confirmed 

 to it exemption from pleas as in the time of William II 

 and Bishop Walkelin. 90 



A parish was assigned to the chapelry of St. John 

 Redhill in 1840," the chapel having been built there 

 two years before. 91 The living, which is a rectory, 

 is in the alternate gift of the rectors of Havant and 

 Warblington. 



Under the will of Richard Dalingrigge of Wade, a 

 chantry was founded in the church about 1471, and 

 maintained for a time from the profits of his manor of 

 Iford in Sussex. Two priests were provided to sing 

 continually in Havant church for the souls of Richard 

 Dalingrigge, his wife Sibyl and their ancestors, but 

 four years after his death, Roger Lewkenor, his 

 nephew and heir-at-law, entered upon the manor of 

 Iford, declaring that Richard had made no such will, 

 and that Iford had descended from Sir Roger Lewke- 

 nor to Thomas Lewkenor, his father. 93 The chantry 

 evidently fell into disuse, for no mention of it occurs 

 in the certificates of chantries returned in 1 547 ; 



84 In 1660, however, before the restora- 

 tion of the bishops' lands, the crown pre- 

 sented to Havant ; Inst. Bki. (P.R.O.). 



84 Egerton MS. 2032, fol. 57^. 



88 Cat. Pap. Pet. i, 319. 



W Return of Causes ... in Peculiar!, Parl. 

 Papers, 1831-2, ixiv, 556. 



88 Under I & 2 Vic. cap. 106, >. loS ; 

 5 & 6 Vic. cap. 27, i. 6. 



" Ex inform. Rev. Canon S. G. Scott, 

 rector of Havant. 



126 



90 Add. MS. 29436, fol. 17. 



91 Lond. Gax. 18 Aug. 1840, p. 1904. 

 91 Sumner, Conspectus of the Dice, of 



Wmttm. 1854. 



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