A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



the chancel, and narrow towards the vestry, with a 

 groove for a sliding panel, by which it could be 

 closed, on the vestry side. The vestry has a two- 

 light east window with modern tracery, but old rear 

 arch, and an original lancet in the north wall. In 

 the south jamb of the east window is a small trefoiled 

 recess with a fourteenth-century canopy and pinnacles 

 over it ; the recess is rebated for a wooden door, and 

 has holes for the fastening of bolts. Its original use 

 can only be conjectured, and it is not certain that it is 

 in situ, but it may be compared with other small and 

 carefully secured recesses which may have held the 

 church plate, or even the Host, as it seems that 

 suspension, though the characteristic English method, 

 was not exclusively practised. 79 West of the vestry is 

 a modern organ chamber, and beyond it a length of 

 original walling containing a window of two uncusped 

 lights, with remains of tracery over the lights, indi- 

 cating re-used material. In the south wall the first 

 window from the east has two fifteenth-century cinque- 

 foiled lights under a square head, but the rear arch is 

 like the others in the chancel, with a wave-mould. 



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Below it is a trefoiled piscina with a Purbeck marble 

 bowl, and in the next bay to the west a lancet window 

 with wave-mould rear arch, of the date of the chan- 

 cel, but not in situ, having been moved here from a 

 place in the north wall when the organ chamber was 

 built. 80 West of it is a plain segmental-headed door- 

 way with modern stonework in the head, and a 

 window with a modern square head and two trefoiled 

 lights, under an old rear arch. Under the tower are 

 two arches, the space between them being covered by 

 a pointed barrel vault. The eastern arch, which 

 dates from the beginning of the fourteenth century, 

 is of two chamfered orders with three engaged shafts 

 in the jambs, having moulded capitals and bases ; the 

 springing of an earlier arch, wider, and of a different 

 radius, and probably contemporary with the western 

 arch, is to be seen on its eastern face. 



The tower carried on these arches and the vault is 

 now of three stages, its original ground stage having 



~* The object of reservation being riaticum, not adoration. 

 80 There was, however, an original window in this position 

 at an earlier date. 



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been cleared away in the early thirteenth-century 

 alterations. The first stage now in existence has plain 

 round-headed doorways on north and south of rough 

 rubble with no wrought stone dressings, and on the 

 west side a blocked doorway with thirteenth-century 

 stonework, but round-headed, and probably repre- 

 senting a third pre-Conquest opening ; the east wall 

 is not pierced. This stage is the only remaining 

 piece of pre-Conquest work, and its walls are 2 ft. 3 in. 

 thick. On the west face of this stage, over the head 

 of the west opening, is the line of a former roof, and the 

 quoins of the western angles of the thirteenth-century 

 work in the tower also appear, showing that the roof 

 was that existing in the thirteenth century. The stage 

 above is a thirteenth-century addition, with thinner 

 walls and small lancet windows on north and south, 

 their rear arches being semicircular, while the top 

 stage, in which is the single bell, is an addition of 

 c. 1830, replacing a wooden turret. It has double 

 openings on each face, divided by a shaft of thirteenth- 

 century style, and is crowned with a short shingled 

 spire. The nave is of three bays, its eastern arch 

 and south arcade being of 

 the same detail, while the 

 north arcade is of plainer 

 work. Both have pointed 

 arches of two chamfered 

 orders, but while the north 

 arcade has round stone 

 columns and moulded 

 capitals, the south has 

 beautiful clustered columns 

 of Purbeck marble, four 

 round shafts with an oc- 

 tagonal central shaft, the 

 moulded bases and foliate 

 capitals being also of the 

 same material. In the 

 east respond the capitals 

 are of stone and the 

 outer shafts have stone 

 bands, and in the chancel 

 arch the same thing oc- 

 curs. The responds in 

 the north arcade are 

 planned as for triple shafts, 



but have never had them. There is probably no great 

 difference in date between the two arcades, a marked 

 difference in design between practically contemporary 

 works being very common in such cases ; the south 

 arcade and chancel arch may have been built first in 

 this instance, the funds not sufficing to build the north 

 arcade in the same elaborate and beautiful style. 



The north aisle has a late thirteenth-century east 

 window of two uncusped lights with a trefoiled circle 

 in the head, and in the north wall two modern two- 

 light windows. The west window is a single uncusped 

 light, but its head is a piece of early fourteenth- 

 century tracery the lower part of a trefoiled opening, 

 re-used here at some uncertain date. In the south- 

 east of the aisle is a large late thirteenth-century 

 trefoiled piscina with a projecting bowl, and below 

 the first window on the north wall a tomb-recess 

 probably of the fourteenth century, the back of which 

 projects beyond the outer face of the wall. It 

 contains the Purbeck marble effigy of a lady in a long 

 gown and wimple, of very poor workmanship, and 

 perhaps of late thirteenth-century date ; and at the 



