BOSMERE HUNDRED 



WARBLINGTON 



back of the recess is carved a soul carried by angels, 

 probably contemporary with the recess, and later than 

 the effigy. The north door of the aisle is of plain 

 fifteenth-century work, under a very picturesque 

 wooden porch of the same date, much patched with 

 later work, but retaining a very good barge-board and 

 framed wooden arch of entrance. In the south aisle 

 the east window has three-light tracery c. 1370, but 

 the rear arch is late thirteenth-century work, like that 

 in the north aisle. Of the same date is the first 

 window on the south side, of two uncusped lights 

 with a pierced spandrel over, the other two windows 

 in this wall being modern copies of it. Traces of 

 the south doorway are visible in the middle bay of 

 the aisle, below the modern window which has taken 

 its place. The west window here is a plain lancet, 

 perhaps of the date of the aisle. At the south-east 

 of the aisle is a plain trefbiled piscina of late thirteenth- 

 century date, and at the north-east a cinquefoiled 

 fourteenth-century tomb-recess with corbels for images 

 above it, and containing the very beautiful fourteenth- 



CHURCH OF ST. THOMAS OF CANTERBURY, 

 WARBLINGTON (FROM THE EAST) 



century effigy of a lady lying with her arms at her 

 sides, the treatment of the hands and drapery being 

 of quite unusual excellence. 



The west window of the nave is of three uncusped 

 lights of early fourteenth-century date, and above it 

 is a modern cinquefoiled circle, while below is a late 

 fifteenth-century doorway. 



The nave roof runs unbroken over the aisles, and 

 is covered with red tiles, and has a brick coping at the 

 west. The eaves of the aisles are low, and the side 

 windows are set in gablets rising above their level. 



The chancel roof is modern, and there are no 

 ancient wood fittings. In the floor of the chancel 

 are some fifteenth-century glazed tiles, showing among 

 other devices two beasts back to back, eagles holding 

 a shield of France, two embattled towers, fleurs-de-lis, 

 &c. There are also two Purbeck marble coffin-lids 

 with crosses in the chancel floor, and the matrix of a 

 brass. At the east end of both aisles of the nave a 

 large coffin-lid with a cross is set on the floor, but 

 there are no monuments of interest beyond the tomb- 

 recesses already described. 



The font at the west end of the north aisle is 

 modern, with a central and four angle shafts and a 

 square bowl. 



On the south-east window of the south aisle is an 

 incised sundial. There is one bell, probably of early 

 sixteenth-century date, inscribed in black-letter capitals 

 and smalls : 



SANCTI PALI ORA PRO NOB. 



The plate comprises a cup of 1 709, with a modern 

 foot, a small paten of 1825, and a jug-shaped flagon 

 of 1823. 



The first book of the registers contains baptisms 

 1631-1735, marriages 1644-1736, and burials 

 16471736. Up to 1660 it is a copy of older 

 entries, whose originals are now lost. The second 

 book runs from 1736 to 1760, the marriages stopping 

 at 1 754. The third has baptisms and burials 1 76087, 

 and the fourth is the printed marriage register, 1754- 

 92. The fifth has baptisms and burials 1787-1808, 

 the sixth marriages 1793-1812, and the seventh 

 baptisms and burials 180912. 



This was orginally vested in the 

 4DrOW r SON lords of the manor. It was granted in 

 dower to Eleanor, widow of Matthew 

 son of John in 1 3O9- 81 John Helyar, rector in the 

 time of Henry VIII, having forfeited his goods as a 

 traitor, the crown presented for one turn. 81 Edward 

 VI granted the advowson with the manor to 

 Sir Richard Cotton, but apparently he parted with it 

 soon afterwards, for in 1619 George Oglander pre- 

 sented. 83 In 1780 Anne Norris, widow, was patron, 

 and the advowson still remains in her family, the 

 present owner being the Rev. William Burrell Norris. 



A part of the parish was assigned to the chapelry 

 of Redhill in I84O. 84 The elementary school was 

 built in 1865, and is of Nonconformist endow- 

 ment. 85 



In 1841 Emsworth was formed into an ecclesiastical 

 parish separate from Warblington, 86 and declared a 

 rectory in I866. 87 



The church of St. James was built in 1 84O, 88 with 

 a chancel, and nave with aisles and two octagonal 

 west turrets. The chancel has since been rebuilt 

 (1892). There is one bell. 



The plate consists of a set given in 1840 by 

 R. J. Harrison, two communion cups, a paten, and a 

 flagon; a silver-gilt cup and paten given in 1892, 

 and a plated paten. The registers begin in 

 1841. 



Before the building of this church the district was 

 served by the chapel of St. Peter, built in 1 790." 



There is a Baptist chapel built in 1848, a Primi- 

 tive Methodist chapel in 1876, and a Congregational 

 chapel founded in 1891. 



The elementary school was opened in 1865. 



The following is the sole endowed 

 CHARITY charity of the parish : Mrs. Jane Bel- 

 lamy, by a codicil to her will, proved 

 in 1892, left a legacy, invested in 102 o/. loJ. 

 Consols, with the official trustees, income to be applied 

 subject to the repair of the donor's grave in 

 keeping the churchyard in order. 



61 Cal. Clou, 1307-13, p. 176. 



81 Egerton MS. 2034, fol. 174. 



88 Longcroft (Hund. of Boimere, 1 26), 

 itates that the lord of Warblington re- 

 tained the advowson till 1764, when 



Thomai Panton old it to John L'nwin. 

 In this case George Oglander and the 

 Breretons must have purchased the right 

 of presentation for one or more turns. 



M Land. Gas. 18 Aug. 1840, p. 1904. 



84 y.C.H. Hant,, ii, 406. 



139 



88 Lund. Gax. 6 Aug. 1841, p. 2O22. 

 " Ibid. 5 June, 1866, p. 3313. 



88 Sumner, Consfectus of tbt D'vx. of 

 ffinnn. 1859. 



89 Ibid. 



