FAREHAM HUNDRED 



FAREHAM 



the westernmost window is of three trefoiled lights 

 under a square head, c. 1500. Between the third 

 and fourth windows is a fifteenth-century doorway. 



On the south of the chancel the windows corre- 

 spond to the first three windows on the north, and 

 the third has at the west angle of its sill on the out- 

 side a small square-headed opening rebated for a 

 frame, and splayed inwards, but not showing on the 

 inner face of the wall. The chancel arch is of late 

 twelfth-century date, with half-round responds and 

 a pointed arch of two chamfered orders. There are a 

 number of seventeenth and eighteenth-century wall 

 tablets in the chancel, and at the south-west an old 

 stone coffin has been placed. 



The fittings of the rest of the church are of no 

 particular interest ; there is a large west gallery run- 

 ning right across the nave, but the eighteenth-century 

 arrangements are destined to give way to modern 

 Gothic work in continuation of the chancel. At 

 present only the foundations of the nave arcades serve 

 to show the form of the future building. 



There are eight bells, of which the treble and 

 second, by Warner, were added in 1883, and the 

 rest are by Joshua Kipling of Portsmouth, the tenor 

 being dated 1745, and the other 1742. On the 

 tenor are a set of verses referring to the rising of 1 745, 

 which witness rather to their writer's loyalty than 

 his poetic skill. 



In vain the rebls strive to gain renown 

 Over our Church, the laws, the King and 



Crowne ; 



In vain the bold ingratfull rebls aim 

 To overturn when you support the same. 

 Then may great George our King live for to see 

 The rebllious crew hang on the gallows tree. 



The plate consists of two Communion cups of 1 830, 

 given in 1831 ; a standing paten of 1718, given by 

 Edward Jenkins, vicar; a flagon of 1720, towards 

 which Mrs. Susanna Hobbs gave 10 ; an alms dish 

 of 1723, and another of 1734, and a spoon of 1852. 

 There is also a very beautiful secular standing covered 

 cup, parcel gilt, of English work, undated, but its 

 approximate date must be c. 1500. 



The register books are as follows ; i, 1558-1634 ; 

 ii, 1634-90, with at the end a list of briefs, 1663-7 

 iii, 16901743 ; iv, 174392, the marriages ceasing 

 at 1753 ; v, baptisms and burials 1792-1812 ; vi-ix, 

 marriages, 1754-1812. 



The church of HOLY TRIN1TT, erected by funds 

 bequeathed by the late Lady Thompson, is a brick 

 building with stone dressings, and consists of small 

 chancel, nave, aisles, north and south porches, and an 

 embattled western tower and spire. A district was 

 assigned to it in 1835, and the registers date from 

 1836. The living is a vicarage in private gift. 



There was a church at Fareham in 

 JDrOWSON 1086 " and it is probable that it was 

 included in the grant of the manor 

 to the bishopric of Winchester. As there is no men- 

 tion of the advowson being held by the feoffees of the 



manor it may be assumed that the bishop kept the 

 right of presentation in his own hands. In 1157 

 Henry de Blois, bishop of Winchester, appropriated 

 the church of Fareham with all its appurtenances to 

 the hospital of St. Cross, and in the valuation of 

 Henry VIII it appears among the revenues of that 

 house as yielding a sum of 60 marks yearly. 76 In 

 1 544 the parsonage was leased to Thomas Wriothesley 

 for fifty years, 76 and in the middle of the seventeenth 

 century a lease of the rectory was granted to the family 

 of Benett for a term of three lives. In 1693 the 

 tithes were worth 180 per annum but by 16978 

 they had risen to 300. In the reign of William III, 

 and again in that of Anne, several disputes arose be- 

 tween the master and brethren of St. Cross and the 

 vicar of Fareham as to the payment of certain tithes, 

 and evidence was brought to show that the former had 

 no interest in any lands that had hitherto paid tithes 

 to the vicar." The tithes were retained by the Benett 

 family until 1 840 when the lease was sold to Sir John 

 Whalley-Smythe Gardiner and on its expiration it re- 

 verted to the hospital of St. Cross. 78 In 1879 Fareham 

 and the parochial chapelry of Holy Trinity were in- 

 cluded in the rural deanery of Alverstoke and in 1 88 1 

 the chapelry was endowed with 17 loj. out of the 

 common fund. 



The lords of the manor of North Fareham had a 

 free chapel at Whipstrode St. James, first mentioned 

 at the beginning of the thirteenth century, when it 

 belonged to Emma des Roches. 80 It followed the 

 descent of the manor until the sixteenth century, 81 

 when the chapel passed to the crown by the surrender 

 of the incumbent, and was pulled down. The tithes 

 and glebe lands were impropriated by the Pexalls, the 

 heirs of the original donors, and passed to successive 

 owners of the manor. 8 * The tithes have, however, 

 gradually diminished in value, and now are quite un- 

 important. 



The rectory of Whipstrode was granted to Thomas 

 Wriothesley some time before 1 5 5O, 83 and followed the 

 descent of Titchfield until 1762. 



The Roman Catholic church of the Sacred Heart 

 was founded in 1873 and rebuilt in 1878. There 

 are also Congregational, Wesleyan and Baptist chapels 

 in the town. 



Miss Elizabeth Barnard by will 

 CHARITIES dated 1819 left consols to the amount 

 of 494 4-r. Sd. the dividends of which, 

 producing 12 Ji. yearly, are to be applied for educa- 

 tional purposes. 



Mrs. Harriet Lawson by will dated 1852 left i ,000 

 invested in consols to the amount of 904 lo/. 3</., 

 the income from which, amounting to 22 121. to be 

 applied in the discretion of the vicar and churchwar- 

 dens in the support of the Sunday school, the church 

 house, and the provident funds for the poor. 



Mary O'Bryen by will dated 1838 left consols to 

 the amount of 270 Ijt. 6J., producing an income of 

 6 1 5/. ifd., to be applied to the distribution of fuel 

 among the poor of the hamlet of Catisfield. 



The Paddon Memorial Almshouses were erected in 

 1850 by Joseph Paddon for two almspeople in memory 



7 ?. C. H. Hand, i, 4624. 

 Harl. MS. 1616, fol. 7. 

 7 fl Egerton MS. 2031, fol. 74. 

 Exch. Dep. Mich. 5 Will, and Mary, 

 No. 10 j Hil. 8 & 9 Will, and Mary, 



No. 10 ; Mich. 2 Anne, No. 13 ; HiL 7 

 Geo. I, No. 4. 



" Information supplied by the lord of 

 the manor of North Fareham. 



79 Land. Gax. 14 Feb. 1879. 



""Add. Chart. 15692. 



215 



81 Chan. Inq. p.m. 35 Edw. Ill, pt. 2, 

 No. 49 ; ibid. 34 Hen. VI, No. 9. 



82 Burrows, Family of Brocas t 331. 



88 W. and L. Inq. p.m. 4 Edw. VI 

 (Ser. 2), v. 103. 



