A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



necessity of giving abutment to the west arch of the 

 tower. 



The chancel has five tall lancet lights under an 

 inclosing arch in the east wall, four tall lancets on the 

 north, and four on the south, the lower part of the 

 westernmost window on the south being cut off by a 

 square-headed low side window of two lights ; the 

 stonework of this window is modern. The lancets 

 have a keeled roll on the rear arches and jambs, and 

 a roll-string at the sill level. Between the third and 

 fourth windows on the south is a plain pointed door- 

 way, part of the original arrangement, and at the 

 south-east of the chancel is a double piscina with 

 trefoiled arches, and round shafts with moulded bases 

 and capitals. East of it is a square-headed cupboard 

 in the wall, 1 5 in. deep and 2 ft. 7 in. wide, with a 

 rebated opening I ft. wide by I ft. loin, high, and 

 in the east jambs of the north-east and south-east 

 lancets are thirteenth-century corbels with recesses 

 above to take the ends of a beam which crossed the 

 chancel at this point, showing that the high altar was 

 set forward with a space behind it for a vestry. It is 

 to be noted that these corbels are worked from the 

 same template, instead of being right and left handed, 

 as their positions require. 



The tower stands on four wide pointed arches of 

 two chamfered orders, with half-octagonal responds 

 to the inner orders. These have moulded capitals 

 on the eastern piers, while those on the western piers 

 are foliate, and of interesting and rather unusual 

 detail. The walls of the tower only rise to about 

 a foot above the ridge of 'the nave roof, and have two 

 small lancet windows in each face of the upper stage, 

 with single lancets of a like character at a lower level 

 on the north and south, showing that the eastern 

 chapels of the aisles were from the first designed to 

 have lean-to roofs like the aisles instead of being 

 gabled north and south like transepts. The tower is 

 finished with a low-pitched hipped roof from which 

 springs a short octagonal wooden spire, both being 

 covered with oak shingles. 



The nave is of three bays, with widely spaced 

 arcades like those under the tower, their chamfered 

 orders dying on to octagonal dies. The octagonal 

 capitals are unusually shallow in the bell, but are 

 most effectively treated with carved foliage, while 

 shafts beneath are markedly slender in comparison 

 with the dies above. The effect of lightness and 

 space thus obtained is most satisfactory. The clearstory 

 has two circular windows on each side, set over the 

 columns instead of the arches, and inclosing quatre- 

 foils with pierced spandrels. 



The east bay of the north aisle has a modern east 

 window of two lights with a trefoiled circle in the head, 

 and in its north wall two lancet lights with modern 

 heads and a quatrefoil over, the same arrangement 

 occurring in the east bay of the south aisle. Under the 

 south window in the south aisle is a trefoiled thir- 

 teenth-century piscina. At the west of these bays 

 are sharply-pointed drop-arches of two chamfered 

 orders, the outer order dying into the side walls, 

 while the inner rests on half octagonal corbels, those 

 on the tower piers having curious foliate carving. 



The remaining three bays of the aisles have small 

 lancet windows in the first and third bays, and wide 

 pointed north and south doorways in the middle 

 bays, with plain chamfered arches. The west win- 

 dows of the aisles are of two lights with quatrefoils 



over, and the nave has a plain thirteenth-century west 

 doorway and over it a large four-light window with 

 fifteenth-century tracery, the main lights having a 

 transom at half height. The south porch is a very 

 pretty fifteenth-century construction, with moulded 

 plates, tie-beams, and outer arch ; it is in rather 

 shaky condition, and a good deal patched with later 

 work. 



All the church except the tower has tiled roofs, 

 the timbers of the nave roof, which has trussed 

 rafters and moulded tie-beams with king posts, being 

 perhaps contemporary with the nave walls, and a rare 

 specimen of their kind. 



In the chancel is an eighteenth-century wooden 

 reredos, but all other wood fittings are modern. In 

 the second stage of the tower, below the bell frames, 

 are some seventeenth-century timbers which seem to 

 have been intended to be seen from below, and the 

 tower was probably meant to be open to the nave as 

 high as the floor of the bell-chamber. 



At the west end of the north aisle is the font, 

 with a square Purbeck marble bowl, c. 1 200, on a 

 central column and four modern angle shafts with 

 stone capitals and bases. At the east end of the 

 same aisle is a very interesting and early rectangular 

 stone bowl, the sides curving outwards at the top, and 

 ornamented with interlacing patterns. There appears 

 to be no drain in the bottom, and its original pur- 

 pose is not certain. On the external south-east 

 angle of the south aisle and the south-east buttress of 

 the chancel are incised sun-dials. 



There are pits for three bells in the tower, but 

 only one bell remains, inscribed ' In God is my hope,' 

 1634, with the founder's initials I. H. 



The church plate is modern, and consists of two 

 chalices, two patens, a flagon, a cruet and an alms- 

 dish. 



The registers of North and South Hayling churches 

 are kept together, and the first book, the parchment 

 copy of 1598, contains baptisms to 1653, and mar- 

 riages and burials to 1649, and belongs to North 

 Hayling. The second, with entries 16721801, 

 belongs to South Hayling. The third has North 

 Hayling entries 1653-1724, and the sixth continues 

 the list to 1 80 1. The fourth book has South Hayling 

 marriages 1754-88, and the fifth continues the 

 same to 1812. The seventh has North Hayling 

 marriages 1754-1804, and the eighth the same to 

 1812. The ninth has North Hayling baptisms and 

 burials 1802-12, and the tenth the corresponding 

 entries for South Hayling. 



To the south of the church, near the south porch, 

 is a very fine yew tree, which though somewhat past 

 its prime is still full of leaf, and adds greatly to the 

 beauty of the churchyard. 



The church of ST. PETER, NORTH H4TL1NG, 

 consists of chancel 20 ft. 2 in. by 13 ft. 2 in., nave 

 45ft. 2 in. by 19 ft. 8 in., with aisles and north 

 transept chapel, north and south porches, and a wooden 

 bell turret over the east bay of the nave. Nothing in 

 the building seems to be older than the end of the 

 twelfth century, the north arcade of the nave being 

 probably of this date, while nearly every other detail in 

 the church belongs to the early part of the thirteenth 

 century. The walls of the nave are only z ft. I in. 

 thick, but this in a building of small scale does not 

 necessarily imply an early date, and the north wall of 

 the north aisle, which is not likely to be older than 



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