A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



August being Satterday, General! of all ye fleete by 

 sea and land, whose name was George Villers Ryght 

 Honorable.' 



The church of the HOLT ROOD, CROFTON, has 

 a chancel with south chapel, a north transept with 

 north vestry, a large south transept, and a nave with 

 south porch and west bell-turret. 



The plan is irregular, the chancel not being on the 

 same axis as the nave, and owing to modern altera- 

 tions there is little guide to the earlier history of the 

 building. The chancel and north transept seem to 

 be early fourteenth-century work, their walls being 

 unusually thin, nowhere more than 2 ft. 



The south transept is a modern addition in poor 

 Gothic style, of much larger area than the north tran- 

 sept, and contains nothing of note beyond the large 

 white marble monument of Thomas Missing, 1733, 

 with his arms, gules a cheveron between three molets 

 argent and a chief or. 



The chancel, I 5 ft. 8 in. by 1 3 ft., has a modern 

 ( two-light east window, on the north a repaired square- 

 i headed window of two trefoiled lights, f. 1320, and 

 on the south a single uncusped light. To the west 

 of this a pointed arch of two orders opens to the 

 south chapel, which has a two-light east window cinque- 

 foiled, and a modern south doorway. To the north 

 of the window is a plain corbel for an image. The 

 chancel arch, which seems to be of fourteenth-century 

 work, dies out at the springing, and on the same line 

 at the west of the south chapel is a half arch with a 

 moulded string at the springing, which looks like 

 early thirteenth-century detail. 



The north transept, 12 ft. 9 in. by 8 ft. 6 in., which 

 opens to the nave by an arch like the chancel arch, 

 has a three-light north window with net tracery, and 

 a square-headed east window of two lights, both 

 c. 1320-30. In the north wall is a narrow doorway, 

 and west of it a blocked low side window with an 

 internal rebate for a wooden frame. The doorway 

 now opens to a modern vestry built against the north 

 wall of the transept. In the west wall of the tran- 

 sept is a single trefoiled fourteenth-century light. 



The nave, 5 1 ft. 3 in. by 19 ft., has three square- 

 headed north windows, each of two trefoiled lights, 

 one south window of the same type, and a four-centred 

 south doorway, all of fifteenth-century style, but 

 mostly of modern masonry. There is a three-light 

 west window with a circular window over it, both 

 modern. 



The roofs of the chancel, nave, and north transept 

 are old, but without detail by which their approximate 

 date may be deduced ; all other woodwork in the 

 church is modern, except the pulpit, which is of 

 eighteenth-century date. 



Externally the roofs are red-tiled, and at the west 

 end of the nave is a boarded turret containing one 

 bell by Clement Tosier, 1710. 



The church of ST. MARY, HOOK, built in 1871, 

 is of stone in Early English style, and consists of 

 chancel, nave of four bays, aisles, transepts, north and 

 south porches, and a western turret containing one 

 bell. The register dates from 1871. 



The church of ST. PAUL, SARISBURT, built in 

 1836, and partly rebuilt and enlarged in 1888, is of 

 brick and stone in Early English style, and consists of 

 chancel, with organ chamber and vestry, nave, tran- 



septs, and western tower containing a clock and one 

 bell. The register dates from 1837. 



The font, near the south door, has an octagonal bowl 

 on a short stem, and may be of fifteenth-century 

 date. This church is now used only as a mortuary 

 chapel, a new building of the same name having been 

 erected in 1871 to serve as the parish church. 



The first mention of the ad- 

 ADrOWSONS vowson of Titchfield appears to 

 be in 1231, when the right of 

 presentation was granted with the manor to the 

 abbot and convent of Titchfield." 8 The abbey 

 presented from 1302 to 1539, and from that time the 

 descent of both the manor and advowson are iden- 

 tical till 1856, when the patronage passed to the 

 dean and chapter of Winchester. 169 



There was a church at Crofton in 1086 which is 

 probably identical with the chapel of St. Edmund 

 mentioned in the fourteenth century in connexion with 

 the grant of the manor to the abbot and convent of 

 Titchfield. 170 As it was never assessed separately in 

 any ecclesiastical valuation, and there is no evidence 

 to show that it has ever been a separate ecclesiastical 

 unit, it was probably a chapel of ease to Titchfield 

 and was served by the same incumbent. The eccle- 

 siastical parish of Crofton was formed from Titchfield 

 in 1871. 



The living of St. Mary's, Hook, is a vicarage in the 

 gift of the bishop of Winchester, and that of St. Paul's 

 Sarisbury, also a vicarage, is in the gift of the vicar of 

 Titchfield. There is an iron church at Lee-on-the- 

 Solent, Congregational chapels at Sarisbury and War- 

 sash, a Baptist chapel at Sarisbury, and a Wesleyan 

 chapel at Lee-on-the-Solent. 



The charities of Robert Godfrey, 

 CHARITIES of Henry earl of Southampton, and 

 Richard Godwin, are now dispensed 

 under a scheme issued by the Charity Commissioners, 

 dated 17 December, 1897, and 9 December, 1902, 

 under the title of ' The Charities of the Earl of 

 Southampton and Others.' Robert Godfrey's charity 

 founded by deed 1597, consists of land, cottages, and 

 stable, let at 28 a year. Richard Godwin's charity 

 is a rent-charge of 4 issuing out of Pressmoore's 

 estate at Glastonbury, Somerset. The trust estates of 

 the earl of Southampton's charity consist of about 

 twenty-seven acres of land, tenements, and garden- 

 grounds, producing a gross income of 1 1 5 a year. 

 By the schemes above referred to the annuity of 4 

 is directed to be applied in the advancement of the 

 education of children in a public elementary school, 

 by way of prizes, together with a further sum of 

 10 out of the general income, and subject thereto 

 the residue of the yearly income for the benefit of 

 poor persons resident in the civil parish, and in 

 default in the ancient parish of Titchfield. In 1905 

 24 was paid to pensioners, 5 in tools for apprentices, 

 and subscriptions were made to provident clubs. 



Mrs. Charlotte Hornby, by her will proved 1890, 

 bequeathed a legacy represented by 1,865 5 s - 8< 

 consols, the income from which, amounting to 46, is 

 applied equally in subscriptions to clothing clubs and 

 in the distribution of blankets at Christmas. 



Seymour Robert Delm6 in 1894 bequeathed 

 1,000 to the vicar and churchwardens of Titchfield 

 church, which is invested in consols to the amount of 



168 Cal. of Chart. R. i, 168 ; Pat. 3 

 Hen. "* 



. VI, pt. I, m. 13. 



" Inst. Bks. (P.R.O.). 

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Pat. 5 Edw. Ill, pt. i, m. 5. 



