BISHOP'S WALTHAM HUNDRED 



FAWLEY 



tioned in Domesday, and is possibly referred to in 

 some of the documents." A mill stood in this 

 locality until comparatively recently. 



Domesday Book gives STONE in Fawley among 

 the lands of the king's thegns, and mentions that its 

 value had sunk since the time of Edward the Confessor 

 from 6o/. to jr. 66 The tenement is not called a 

 manor until the sixteenth century. In the fourteenth 

 century William Chippe, and his son Robert Chippe 

 after him, were holders of a messuage and land in 

 Stone. 6 ' In 1346 one-twelfth part of a knight's fee 

 in Stone, formerly in the tenure of Aymer de 

 Valence, was held by Thomas West, 68 who was 

 evidently one of the same family which early in the 

 fourteenth century was united to the De La Warrs ; ra 

 for in 1547 Thomas West, 

 Lord De La Warr, was hold- 

 ing the manor of Stone.' In 

 1 608 Thomas Fashion died 

 seised of this manor, bequeath- 

 ing it by will to West Fashion 

 his son." West Fashion in 

 1639, and his son Thomas the 

 following year, died seised of 

 the manor of Stone ; the 

 heir of Thomas was another WEST. Argent a feat 



Thomas, his son." The dancety table. 

 family of Fashion was of 



Guernsey ; ?s when they parted with Stone is not 

 clear, the next trace of that manor being in 1704, 

 when William Bulkley conveyed it to Samuel Mason. 74 

 Some time between this date and 1740 Stone came 

 into the hands of the Mitfords of Exbury (probably 

 about 1718 when William Mitford purchased Exbury 

 of Henry Compton). In 1740, 1765, and 1774 

 family settlements concerning Stone were made by 

 the Reveleys and Mitfords." The estate now forms 

 part of the property of Mr. Drummond of Cadlands. 

 The church of ALL SAINTS, 

 CHURCHES FAWLET, has a chancel 30 ft. 6 in. 

 by 1 5 ft. 4 in., with north and south 

 chapels, nave of the same width, 59 ft. 3 in. long, 

 with north and south aisles n ft. 8 in. wide, south- 

 east tower, and west porch. 



As it stands to-day, without taking into account 

 the modern details, the church seems to belong to 

 two main periods, c. 1170-1210, and 13001340. 

 But it is evident that its present plan, which is, 

 roughly speaking, a rectangle looft. long by 50 ft. 

 wide, has only been reached by a long series of de- 

 velopments, some of which at least may be conjectured 

 from existing evidence. The north wall of the tower, 

 2 ft. 3 in. thick, as against 3 ft. in the other three 

 tower walls, is clearly the south wall of a nave older 

 than the tower, and probably of the same date as the 

 thin east (2 ft. I in.) and north walls of the nave 

 (2 ft. 3 in.). The equality of width between nave 

 and chancel suggests that the latter has been built 

 round an older and narrower chancel, and above the 

 east face of the chancel arch are the marks of a roof 

 belonging to a narrower building. The evidences 

 therefore of a small aisleless church, consisting of 



chancel about 1 1 ft. wide, and nave 1 5 ft. 4 in. wide, 

 are demonstrable, but its east and west dimensions 

 can only be suggested from the analogy of other 

 examples : 1 3 ft. for the chancel and 35-40 ft. for the 

 nave are probably near the mark. 



The chancel built round the early chancel at some 

 date in the twelfth century difficult to fix was prob- 

 ably at first aisleless, a length of string-course on the 

 north wall, west of the present arcade, pointing to the 

 fact that the wall is older than the arcade. It was 

 also probably some 8 ft. shorter than the present 

 chancel. About 117080 a north aisle to the chan- 

 cel was built, probably narrower than the present 

 aisle and of equal length with the chancel, and some 

 thirty years later a south aisle of like dimensions was 

 added. 



The tower at the south-east of the nave must have 

 been begun about the same time as the north aisle of 

 the chancel, and the lengthening of the nave and 

 addition to it of north and south aisles was probably 

 determined on, but, from the evidence of the details, 

 carried on very slowly. The two eastern bays of the 

 north arcade have been altered, if not rebuilt, in the 

 fourteenth century ; and this, together with some 

 evidence of the former existence of an east wall to the 

 north aisle, suggests that some transeptal arrangement 

 balancing the tower may have been originally in- 

 tended. Unless the west arch of the tower has been 

 tampered with, the width of the south aisle of the 

 nave must always have been as now ; and since the 

 north aisle is of exactly the same width, it also may 

 preserve its original plan. The first part of the four- 

 teenth-century enlargements probably began with a 

 lengthening, c. 1300, of the chancel, and some thirty 

 years later the aisles were similarly lengthened and also 

 widened, the north aisle to the width of that of the 

 nave, and the south aisle to the width of the tower. 

 The work in the nave, beyond the alterations to the 

 south arcade already noted, involved no changes in the 

 plan. The chief repairs to the building of modern 

 date are those of 1840 and 1866. 



The chancel has an east window of three trefoiled 

 lights with intersecting mullions, and a plain circle in 

 the head, an interesting piece of early tracery, c. \ 300. 

 Beneath its sill on the outside is a small round-headed 

 recess with a pedimented seventeenth-century slab 

 with an inscription to Elizabeth Light, the back of 

 the recess being also part of a seventeenth-century 

 tombstone. The north arcade of the chancel is of 

 two bays with pointed arches of a single order, round 

 shafts, and square capitals scalloped ; the bases are 

 moulded and have angle-spurs ; all details being much 

 worked over in cement. The south arcade is evidently 

 of a later date, though of the same general design, and 

 has plain leaf-work on the bells of the capitals. The 

 north chapel has a three-light east window with net 

 tracery, c. 1330, the mullions being modern, and in 

 the north wall two square-headed three-light win- 

 dows, much repaired. On the north of the east 

 window is a plain image-bracket, in the south wall a 

 trefoiled fourteenth-century piscina. 



In the south wall of the chancel is a modernized 



Feet of F. Hants, Hil. 2 Jan. I. 



V.C.H. Hants, i, 5093. 



W Abbrev. Rot. Orig. (Rec. Com.), 15* ; 

 Chan. Inq. p.m. 18 Edw. II, No. 68 j 

 De Bane. R. 292, m. 164. 



e8 Feud. Aids, ii, 327. 



69 G.E.C. Peerage, viii, 102. 



7 Feet of F. Hants, Mich, i Edw. 

 VI. 



n\f. and L. Inq. p.m. 1-6 Ja. I 

 [Ser. 2), bdle. 2, No. 27. 



7" Chan. Inq. p.m. 15 Chas. I (Ser. 2), 



No. 40 ; W. and L. Inq. p.m. 5 Jas. I, 

 bdle. 33, No. 27. 



? 8 The Genealogist, vii, 236. 



1* Feet of F. Hants, Hil. 3 Anne. 



? 6 Close 14 Geo. II, pt. 7 ; Recov. R. 

 Mich. 6 Geo. Ill, rot. 258 j Feet of 

 F. Hants, East. 14 Geo. III. 



