A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



virgate and a half at Newland, out of the land which 

 the abbot of Titchfield had obtained from Peter de 

 Cosham (see under Cosham). s(>a 



As early as the middle of the thirteenth century 

 the family of Wanstead held land at WANSTEAD,** 

 in Southwick, of the king by the service of finding a 

 man to serve for eight days in time of war at Port- 

 chester Castle. 40 They continued to hold this land 

 until 1453, when John Wanstead diedseised of lands, 

 tenements, and rent in Wanstead, his heirs being his 

 two sisters, Agnes, the wife of John Joye, and Joan, 

 the wife of John Kentyshe. 41 The estate, however, 

 does not appear to have been described as a manor 

 until the year 1495, when Sir John Dawtry died 

 seised of it, held by the same service, leaving a son 

 and heir, Francis, under age. 4 ' It is possible that the 

 lands may have passed to the Dawtrys by the second 

 marriage of the surviving co-heir of John Wanstead 

 with Sir John Dawtry. However this may be, Sir 

 Francis Dawtry sold the manor in February, 1541-2, 

 to Richard Bennett of Portchester, and Agnes his 

 wife. 43 Agnes survived her husband, and in 1 548 

 settled the manor on her married daughter, Margaret 

 Tichborne, from whom it passed ten years later to 

 Agnes's son, John Maryner, 44 and thence in 1593 to 

 Peter son of this John. 44 



Peter Maryner died in March, 1614, leaving the 

 manor to his only daughter Mabel, wife of Edmund 

 Plowden. 46 In the following spring Dorothy Mary- 

 ner and Edmund Plowden and his wife Mabel con- 

 veyed the manor to John Waller and Francis Plowden 

 evidently as a settlement. 47 



From the beginning of the seventeenth century the 

 Whites were holding the rectory, advowson, and lands 

 in Wanstead, 48 which passed with the marriage of 

 Honor White to the Nortons ta ; and from the 

 Nortons to the Thistlethwaytes. The Thistle- 

 thwaytes evidently bought up the whole manor from 

 the heirs of the Plowdens, for Alexander Thistle- 

 thwayte and his wife Mary were seised of it in 

 1768 so ; and it has remained in their family until 

 the present day. 



The church of ST. JAMES has a 

 CHURCH chancel with north chapel, nave with 

 north aisle and south porch, and a west 

 tower over the last bay of the nave. Its oldest details 

 are evidently re-used material from the ruins of South- 

 wick Priory, but the eastern angles of the chancel seem 

 to be of thirteenth-century date, and the south 

 and west walls of the nave have fourteenth-century 

 features. 



The chancel was remodelled by John White in 

 1 566, as an inscription above the east window records : 



IOHANNES WHYTE ARMIGER PATRONUS HUIUS ECCLESIE 



ET DNS MANERII 



HANC FENESTRAM ET OPUS FIERI FECIT ANNO 

 DNI 1566. 



The window in question is of three trefoiled lights 

 with tracery which might be taken for fifteenth- 



century work, but the two contemporary windows on 

 the south, the eastern of which has the date 1566 on 

 the dripstones of its label, are of three square-headed 

 lights with ovolo mullions of Renaissance detail. Over 

 the eastern of these two windows is a panel of early 

 seventeenth-century character, with three divisions 

 enclosing heraldry, in the first a Moor's head, in the 

 second a quartered coat with sable, a lion or in the 

 first quarter, and in the third sable a lion or. 



At the north side of the chancel is the tomb of 

 John White and his second wife, and west of it a 

 four-centred sixteenth-century arch to the north chapel. 



There is no chancel arch, and the north jamb of 

 the opening to the nave is cut back. A beam spans 

 the chancel at the west, with a plastered partition 

 above it, on which is the Creed. 



The nave has a north arcade of two wide bays and 

 one narrow eastern bay, of the same detail and date as 

 that on the north of the chancel, and the north aisle 

 and chapel seem to be coeval with it, being lighted 

 by square-headed windows with uncusped four-centred 

 lights. The east window is of four lights, and the 

 three on the north and one on the west of two lights. 



The external north-east angle of the old aisleless 

 nave, projecting into the north chapel, has been cut 

 back, and the upper part carried on the fine thirteenth- 

 century capital of a clustered column of Purbeck 

 marble, doubtless from the priory church. 



At the east end of the south wall of the nave is a 

 recess spanned by a late twelfth-century moulded and 

 pointed arch, obviously re-used, and in the back of the 

 recess is a window of two cinquefoiled lights, perhaps 

 eighteenth-century work, with a later mullion. To 

 the west of it is a tall window, c. 1 330, of two trefoiled 

 ogee lights, and beyond it a plain south doorway 

 opening into a long and narrow vestry, which has 

 developed from a porch, and has in the southern half 

 thirteenth-century wall arcades of three bays, on cast 

 and west, with Purbeck marble capitals on the west, 

 and in one instance on the east also, doubtless more 

 relics of the priory. 



The west end of the nave is occupied by a gallery 

 carried on twisted wooden columns, and at the west 

 by four big wooden posts, which may once have sup- 

 ported a wooden bell-turret, replaced apparently in 

 the sixteenth century by the existing plain masonry 

 tower. The east wall of this tower is built on a round 

 arch spanning the gallery, with narrow side arches, the 

 southern of which contains the stair to the gallery, 

 and the other its continuation to the belfry. The 

 west wall of the nave is of the first half of the four- 

 teenth century, with a central west doorway of two 

 continuous orders with a moulded label, and a three- 

 light window over it with net tracery. The lower 

 part of the wall is faced with chequers of stone and 

 flint, and there are heavy angle buttresses. The church 

 is full of tall deal pews, with a large ' squire's pew ' on 

 the north side of the chancel. The pulpit is, however, 

 of oak, a half octagon in plan, at the south-east of the 

 nave, with a good cornice and fluted upper panels. The 



>** Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 242. 



89 Adam de Wanstead held half a 

 carucate of land in 1254 (Feet of F. 

 Hants, Hil. 39 Hen. III). Henry 

 de Wanstead was holding a little later, 

 and William de Wanstead owned land 

 there in 1362, and died about 1376 

 (Abbrev. Rot. Orig. (Rec. Com.), ii, 342). 

 Adam de Wanstead and Robert de la 

 Hurst held one virgate in La Lye, now 



represented by Lye Heath Farm (Testa de 

 Ne-vill, 242). 



40 Tata de Ne-vtll (Rec. Com.), 235- 

 237 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 36 Edw. Ill (ist 

 Nos.), No. 80. 



41 Ibid. 32 Hen. VI, No. 6. 



42 Ibid. II Hen. VII (Ser. 2), vol. 

 34, No. 12. 



> Ibid. I Edw. VI (Ser: 2), vol. 85, 

 No. 40. 



I6 4 



Ibid. I Eliz. (Ser. 2), vol . 1 24, No. 1 5 9 . 

 46 Ibid. 36 Eliz. (Ser. 2), No. 80. 

 46 Ibid. 12 Jas. I (Ser. 2), vol. 345, 

 No. 1 20. 



V Feet of F. Hants, Hil. 12 Jas. I. 



48 W. and L. Inq. p.m. 7 Jas. I (Ser. 

 2), bdle. 12, No. 108. 



49 Chan. Inq. p.m. 12 Chas. I (Ser. 2), 

 pt. I, Nos. 101-29. 



60 Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 9 Geo. III. 



