PORTSDOWN HUNDRED 



west wall of the nave retains some old masonry, the 

 jambs of the west window, a single lancet, being 

 probably of thirteenth-century date, with a dwarf 

 buttress below its sill. 



The chancel is a good example of Street's work, of 

 thirteenth-century style, with a stone-ribbed vault and 

 elaborate details and fittings. In the north vestry is 

 an old piscina, a seventeenth-century altar table, and 

 a small fourteenth-century coffin lid, with a cross 

 flory having a ring on the stem. It probably covered 

 the burial of a heart or some other part of a body 

 rather than that of a child. 



The font, at the west of the nave, has an old 

 octagonal base, of the fourteenth or fifteenth century. 



There is a brass plate in memory of Anthony 

 Pound, 1547, bearing the arms of Pound; or on a fesse 

 gules three molets argent ; in chief two boars' heads 

 and in base a cross paty fitchy sable. There are two 

 bells by Thomas Bartlett of Portsmouth, 1767. 



The plate consists of a silver-gilt and jewelled 

 chalice, paten, and flagon of 1853. 



The first book of the registers, of parchment, 

 contains baptisms and burials 1538-1656, and 

 marriages to 1647, and the second has baptisms and 

 marriages from 1654, burials from 1656 to 1718, 

 and entries on paper beginning in 1721 of marriages 

 to 1750 and burials to 1792. The third book is the 

 printed marriage register, 17541812, and the fourth 

 begins with copies of the entries of baptisms from 

 1766 to 1792, the originals having been damaged by 

 damp, and combines the baptisms and burials to 

 1812. The tithe map of 1839 is preserved at the 

 rectory. 



PORTCHESTER 



The church of S7*. JOHN THE BAPTIST, 

 PURBROOK, is of flint with stone dressings in the 

 Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, south aisle, 

 vestry, south porch, and western tower. The register 

 dates from 1858. 



The church of ST. GEORGE, WATERLOO- 

 V1LLE, is of brick, faced with rough-cast, consisting 

 of apsidal chancel, nave, aisle, and small embattled 

 western tower containing one bell. The register 

 dates from 1836. 



The earliest mention of a church at 

 ADPOfVSON Farlington seems to be in the year 

 1 200, when there was a suit between 

 Robert de Curci and Roger de Scures concerning the 

 presentation to the church of St. Andrew at Farling- 

 ton.*' In 1231 the church was served by a chaplain 

 of Philip de Albini and was in need of repairs. 6 * 



The rectory of Farlington was valued in 1291 at 

 6*. S^., 6 ' and in 1535 it was worth 10 4/. 66 



The advowson follows the descent of the manor 

 until the end of the eighteenth century. 67 From 

 1789 until 1803 Charles Williams was the holder, 68 

 and in 1817 Mr. C. W. Taylor presented. 59 About 

 1837 the advowson was bought from the trustees of 

 the Taylor estates by Mr. E. T. Richards, in whose 

 family it has remained until the present day. 70 The 

 living is a rectory, net yearly value 300, with resi- 

 dence and four acres of glebe. 



The advowson of Purbrook church in this parish 

 is a vicarage in the gift of the rector of Farlington. 



The advowson of the church of St. George at 

 Waterlooville is a vicarage in the hands of the bishop 

 of Winchester. 



PORTCHESTER 



Rich as Hampshire is in antiquities, the county 

 possesses but one or two villages that can compete with 

 Portchester in archaeological and historical interest. 

 Portchester is situated on the tongue of land which 

 juts out into Portsmouth Harbour from the north. 

 South, east, and west its shores are washed by the tide, 

 while the sides of Portsdown form its northern 

 boundary. The London and South- Western Railway 

 has a station a short distance north of the village, 

 which lies low scarcely 10 ft. above the sea level 

 and consists of two principal streets : West Street on 

 the Fareham road, and the long and straggling Castle 

 Street, which runs southwards and leads to the castle 

 and the harbour. 



In the south-east corner of the castle inclosure is 

 the priory church of St. Mary, still used as the parish 

 church. The village pound is still to be seen. The 

 schools were built in 1873 anc ^ enlarged in 1893 to 

 accommodate 1 64 children. There is a brewery near the 

 junction of Castle Street and West Street, and the manu- 

 facture of tobacco-pipes and whiting is carried on in the 

 village, which also contains many market gardens. 

 There is a Methodist chapel situated in the centre of 

 the village, and Portchester Farm lies to the north- 



east, close to the railway. Wyker Farm, formerly 

 a small manor, is in the west of the parish, north of 

 Fareham Lake, and is surrounded by a marsh and 

 lake of the same name. Further north-east is the 

 smaller farm of Little Wyke. Wyke mill-house and 

 a disused windmill is reached by Wyke Path. 



The soil of the parish is loam, with a clay subsoil, 

 and chalk on the hills, on which crops of wheat and 

 other cereals are grown. The area is 1,379 acres of 

 land, of which 874^ are arable and 156^ permanent 

 grass' ; there are 141 acres of land covered by water, 

 330 acres of tidal water, and 1,471 acres of fore- 

 shore.* The common lands in Portchester were 

 inclosed in 1807.' 



The following place names occur in 1538 : 

 ' Whettecrofte, Berestronde, Sawyer's Land, Hall 

 Ground, Purwels, and Ossyldeane.' * 



The history of the Roman fortress of 

 CdSTLE Portchester has been already given, so far 

 as it can be ascertained. In Domesday there 

 is mention of a 'halla,' but nothing to suggest that 

 the place was of particular importance. Although the 

 mediaeval castle was commenced early in the twelfth 

 century, there is no reference to it until 1153, when 



68 Abbrev. Plat. (Rcc. Corn.), 29. 



64 Cal. of Close, 1227-31, p. 551. 



6 Pope Nick. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 211. 



" Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 21. 



^ Wykeham'i Register (Hants Rec. 

 Sue.), i, 60, 182, 222 ; Egerton MS. 

 2034, fol. 13 and 42. There are three 



exceptions to this statement. In 1619 

 William Fowle held the advowson for a 

 turn, in 1662 a certain Richard Colson, 

 and in 1869 Thomas Brereton (Inst. Bks. 

 P.R.O.). ' " Int. Bks. (P.R.O.). 



" Clerical Guide, 1817. 



7 Add. MSS. 33, 282, fol. 158-9; 



Clerical Guide, 1837 ; Clergy List, 1841- 

 1904. 



1 Statistics from Bd. of Agric. (1905). 



* Ordnance Survey. 



Local and Pers. Acts of Parl. 48 Geo. 

 Ill, cap. 63. 



4 Mins. Accts. 29-30 Hen. Ill, m. 30. 



