PORTSDOWN HUNDRED 



WYMERING 



altar-rails have eighteenth-century twisted balusters, 

 and the east end of the chancel is panelled, with a 

 large eighteenth-century painted altar-piece in the 

 middle. 



The font at the south-west of the nave, c. I zoo, is 

 octagonal, of Purbeck marble, with two shallow round- 

 headed arcades on each face. It stands on a modern 

 octagonal base. 



John White's tomb, already mentioned, is a Pur- 

 beck marble altar-tomb with panelled sides, with the 

 brass figures of himself and his second wife, Katherine 

 Pound, on the upper slab, with their arms and figures 

 of six sons and four daughters. The tomb dates from 

 1548 or soon after, when his wife died, the date of 

 his own death (1567) being filled in afterwards. The 

 inscription which runs round the edge of the slab is in 

 English, and of very beautiful lettering. There have 

 been brass shields in each panel of the sides of the tomb, 

 but only those on the south remain, bearing respec- 

 tively White, 50 * White impaling Pound, and Pound. 

 The stone canopy of the tomb is dated 1566, having 

 evidently been set up by White when he was altering 

 the chancel, and is of Renaissance character, with a 

 central pediment and columns on either side, sur- 

 mounted by smaller pediments. A small figure 

 holding a shield stands on each pediment, and the arms 

 of White and Pound, with the White crest, a horse's 

 head, are repeated in the spandrils and on the shields. 

 With the Pound arms are quartered (2) Argent three 

 fleurs-de-lis azure, for Holt, (3) Argent a cheveron 

 between three eagles' legs razed sable, for Braye, and 

 (4) Argent a cross engrailed gules, forTiptoft. 



On the north wall of the north chapel is a brass 

 plate to Anne, first wife of John White, and widow 

 of John Pound of Drayton, the date of her death 

 being lost. 



There are four bells, said to have been brought 

 from the old church of St. Lawrence, Portsmouth. 

 The treble, by John Wallis of Salisbury, is inscribed 

 ' Praise God, 1 600,' and the tenor, inscribed ' Searve 

 the Lord,' is of the same date and by the same 

 founder. The second is a mediaeval bell, c. 1440, by 



a London foundress, Joanna Sturdy, and is inscribed 

 ' Sancte Paule Ora Pro Nobis.' The third, bearing 

 ' In God is my hope, 1 623,' is by an uncertain founder 

 I.H., whose bells are common in the district. 



The plate is silver-gilt, given in 1 69 1 by Richard 

 Norton, and consists of a communion cup, a standing 

 paten, two flagons, an almsdish and a rat-tail spoon. 



The registers begin in 1628, the entries up to 

 1812 being contained in six books. 



Southwick Church was assessed in 

 ADVOWSQN 129131^10, tithes^i." Atthetime 

 of the Dissolution the rectory of 

 Southwick was in the hands of the prior and convent," 

 and was granted, with the site of the priory, to John 

 White in 1538, when he immediately pulled down 

 the conventual church. 53 



The advowson followed the descent of the manor 

 (q.v.), and, with the manor, is now in the hands of 

 Mr. Alexander Thistlethwayte. The living is a vicar- 

 age consolidated with Boarhunt. 



There was evidently a church at Wanstead in 

 Southwick in the beginning of the fifteenth century, 

 the advowson of which was in the hands of the prior 

 and convent. 54 



The rectory was in the possession of the priory at 

 the time of the Dissolution, 55 and from this date the 

 advowson of the rectory has followed the descent of 

 the manor of Southwick (q.v.). 



In 1599 Honor Wayte, by will, gave 

 CHARITIES to the poor of this parish 2O/. yearly, 

 to be paid out of the manor of Den- 

 mead, to be distributed amongst the aged sick and 

 needy poor people. 



The annual sum of 2O/. is duly paid and distributed 

 in money among ten parishioners. 



In 1837 John Soaper, surgeon, by will, proved this 

 date, bequeathed 400 new three per cents., and 

 directed the interest thereof to be laid out in bread 

 for distribution to the poor on 2 5 January each year for 

 ever. The Trust Fund now consists of ^390 8.r. \d. 

 consols, with the official trustees, the dividends of 

 which are given away in bread. 



WYMERING 



Wimeringe (xii cent.) ; Wemering ; Wymerynnge 

 (xiv cent.) ; Wymering (xv cent.). 



In 1831 Wymering was a parish about four miles 

 north from Portsmouth, containing the villages of 

 Wymering and Cosham, and the tithing of Hilsea, 

 about one mile south of Cosham. It was about 

 three miles in length and three miles in breadth, 

 and contained 3,079 acres of land. It was, however, 

 amalgamated with Widley in 1894,' and formed into 

 the present parish of Cosham. The combined area 

 of the two parishes is 4,035 acres of land, 33 of water, 

 83 of tidal water, and 621 acres of foreshore.' 



The village of Wymering, which is very small, lies 

 about half a mile west of Cosham, on the main road 

 between Cosham and Fareham. The church and 

 vicarage are on the north side of the road, with the 



new churchyard opposite to them, and the manor 

 house close by on the east. Both vicarage and manor 

 house are old buildings, but much alteration has 

 deprived the former of any features by which the date 

 of its oldest parts can be determined ; and the latter, 

 though retaining more evident traces of age, owes its 

 interest at the present day rather to its contents than 

 its structure. It is H-shaped in plan, with a panelled 

 entrance hall in the centre, the kitchen and offices 

 being attached to the south side of the south wing. 

 The beams in this part of the building witness to its 

 antiquity, and foundations are said to exist to the 

 north of the house belonging to buildings connected 

 with the still-existing north wing. 



A large room of comparatively modern date, built 

 out into the garden at the back of the south wing, 



503 Mr. Percy G. Langdon, in a valuable 

 paper on 'The Brasses of the White 

 family at Southwick ' {Hampshire Field 

 Club, vol. iii, pt. i), gives these arms as 

 Argent on a cross quarterly ermine and or 

 between four falcons azure a fret gules 



between four lozenges counterchanged 

 gules and or j a different blazon from that 

 given above, which is taken from Berry's 

 Hampshire Genealogies. 



61 Pope Nich. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 

 21 it. 



I6 5 



5a Dugdale, Monasticon, vi, 244. 



M V.C.H. Hants, ii, 1 68. 



54 Egerton MSS. 2031-4, iv, 26. 



65 Dugdale, Monasticon, vi, 244. 



1 Loc. Govt. Bd. Order. 



3 Ordnance Survey. 



