A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



lancets, three evenly spaced to light the chancel, and 

 the other two set more widely apart in the nave, the 

 blank space between them having once contained the 

 north doorway. West of the third window from the 

 east is a small doorway, probably once connected with 

 the rood-loft stair. In the south wall the same 

 arrangement of windows exists, with a priest's door 

 below the second lancet, and between the two in the 

 nave is the south doorway, which is pointed, of two 

 chamfered orders, with square abaci, and looks to be 

 c . 1 1 90, but may be of the same date as the windows 

 in spite of its detail ; or it may have been moved 

 from the wall of the older nave. Above it is the 

 inscription on a stone panel : 



+ FRATRES ORATE PRECK VESTRA SANCTIFICATE 

 TEMPLI FACTORES SENIORES AC JUNIORES 

 WLFRIT FUNDAVIT BONUS ADAM MB RENOVAVIT. 



Above the inscription is a circular sun-dial on a square 

 stone, with leaves carved at the corners, like that at 

 Corhampton, and probably also of Saxon date. It is 

 now covered by the south porch, which seems to be 

 of the thirteenth century, with a plain pointed outer 

 arch and stone benches, and has two incised sun-dials 

 on its east quoins. 



On the north of the nave, over the position 

 of the destroyed north doorway, is a second in- 

 scription : 



-f ADAM DE PORTU BZNEDICAT SOLIS AB ORTU 



GENS CRUCE SIGNATA PER QUEM SUM SIC 



RENOVATA 



The tower is of two stages, with a plain brick 

 parapet and broad ashlar-faced clasping buttresses 

 at the angles. It has a plain inserted fourteenth- 

 century west door, with a blocked recess near it 

 on the outside, probably for a holy-water stoup. 

 The ground stage is lighted by three round-headed 

 windows, that in the west wall being more elabo- 

 rately treated, with pairs of nook-shafts having 

 foliate capitals. 



The upper or belfry stage, reached by wooden 

 ladders in the south-west angle, is lighted by narrow 

 round-headed lights with, at a higher level, pairs of 

 large circular openings surrounded by chamfered labels. 

 Above these openings the walls are rebuilt in red brick, 

 and the greater part of the east wall of the tower above 

 the tower arch has been thus treated. The tower 

 arch is pointed, of two square orders with a chamfered 

 string at the springing, and is at present blocked by a 

 wooden screen made up of seventeenth-century panel- 

 ing and carved details. 



The roofs of the church have lately been repaired 

 and covered with red tiles, and the fittings and paving 

 generally set in order. The double truss in the roofs 

 marks the old line of division between nave and 

 chancel, and the screen which now defines their 

 limits is an interesting piece of work dated 1634, 

 with carved upper and middle rails and a line of 

 turned balusters between them, the panels below the 

 middle rails being solid. On the east side of the 

 screens are two inclosed eighteenth-century pews, in 

 which older woodwork is used up, and on the west of 

 the screen is a large squire's pew, taking up the whole 



of the north side, so that the pulpit, &c., are moved 

 to the south of the central gangway. Against the 

 north wall of the chancel are three fifteenth-century 

 misericorde seats, and the altar rails are eighteenth, 

 century work, the balusters in them being modern. 

 On the north side of the chancel is a double stone 

 locker in the wall, now containing two funeral helms. 

 The benches in the nave are plain and solid, perhaps 

 of the end of the sixteenth century, and the south 

 door is seventeenth-century work. 



On either side of the altar table are monuments 

 against the east wall, that to the north being to 

 William Neale, 1601, of marble and alabaster, with a 

 panelled base on which stand two Corinthian columns 

 supporting a pediment with the arms of his house. On 

 the south side is the large 

 monument of Sir Thomas 

 Neale, 1621, and his two 

 wives, their alabaster effigies 

 lying beneath a panelled 

 canopy with a broken pedi- 

 ment, on which are the arms 

 of Neale between alabaster 

 figures of Faith and Charity. 

 On the base are kneeling 

 figures of two sons and seven 

 daughters, four of the latter 

 holding skulls to show their 

 death in their parents' lifetime. 



In the nave floor west of 



NEALE of Warnford. 

 Argent a Jfsie between 

 nvo crescenfj in the chief 

 and a hunting horn in the 

 foot all gulet. 



the chancel screen are two coffin lids, one of the 

 thirteenth and one of the fourteenth century ; the 

 former having been moved here from the north of 

 the nave in 1905. 



The font at the west of the nave is a very interest- 

 ing late twelfth-century example, in Purbeck marble, 

 with a square bowl, with more elaborate carvings than 

 usual in this type of font, but unfortunately in very 

 bad condition. It stands on a central and four angle- 

 shafts of marble, and has on the east face of the bowl 

 an Agnus Dei between two beasts, on the north three 

 birds displayed, on the south two large beasts facing 

 each other, and on the west a defaced carving between 

 two birds. 



There are six bells, the treble and second of 1635, 

 by John Dauton of Salisbury, with the Neale arms on 

 the treble, the other four being by John Wallis, the 

 third made in 1599 and inscribed 



THO GULLE QUI OBT 4" MAII ; 



the fourth of 1598, the fifth of 1600, and the tenor 

 of 1603. 



The plate consists of a chalice and cover paten 

 of 1685, a chalice and paten of 1843, and a pewter 

 flagon. 



The first book of the registers contains baptisms, 

 1541-1771, marriages, 1604-1764, and burials, 

 1617-1771. The second has baptisms 1783-1812, 

 marriages 1735-1800, and burials 1782-1812, the 

 baptisms and burials 1771-1783 being lost. The 

 third book has marriages 180012. 



There was a church in Warnford at 



4DVOWSON the time of the Domesday Survey. 61 



In 1292 the church was worth 



J~z\ 61. 8</. a year, 6 ' while in the reign of Henry VIII 



its annual value was 21 gs. 3^a'. 63 The advowson 



y.C.H. Hants, >, 481-2. " Pope Nich. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 212. 



Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), i, 23. 



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