A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



trefoiled piscina and a square locker, the back of 

 which has been cut through and now opens to the 

 south chapel, the east end of which is used as a vestry. 

 It has east and south windows corresponding to those 

 in the north chapel, and at the south-west a small 

 pointed doorway of late twelfth-century date with a 

 continuous edge-roll on its outer face. At the west 

 is a modern arch to the tower, and at the south-east 

 an arched piscina recess with a small trefoiled recess, 

 also with a drain, below it. North of the east win- 

 dow is an image bracket, on which rests a stone with 

 roughly-cut fourteenth-century tracery on it. In the 

 east window are the arms of Henry VIII in a garter, 

 and several loose pieces of fifteenth-century glass are 

 kept here, one being part of a crucifixion, and another 

 having a figure of St. Nicholas. The chancel arch is 

 semicircular, of one square order, with a moulded 

 and chamfered abacus of late twelfth-century detail. 

 The wall in which it is set is only 2 ft. I in. thick, and 

 it probably succeeds an early and narrower arch. 



The nave arcades are of plain character, with 

 pointed arches of one order, circular columns, and 

 square capitals with the angles cut back. The general 

 details are of thirteenth-century style, except in the 

 two east bays of the north arcade, where the detail of 

 capitals and bases looks like fourteenth-century work. 

 The tower at the south-east of the nave is of late 

 twelfth-century date, with a plain round-headed light 

 in the south wall of its ground story, and modern 

 round-headed arches on the north and west. The 

 north-west pier also has been rebuilt, but the responds 

 of the arches are old, with scalloped capitals and 

 moulded bases with spurs. The capital of the south 

 respond of the west arch has curious foliate detail, 

 resembling that at South Hayling, but of earlier type. 

 On the south and east walls is a modern wall arcade, 

 with memorial inscriptions of the Drummond family. 

 The upper part of the tower is a fifteenth-century 

 addition or rebuilding, and has a plain parapet and 

 two square-headed lights on each face of the upper 

 stage. In the second stage are trefoiled windows on 

 the north and east, and on the south side is a rain- 

 water head dated 1743. 



The north aisle of the nave has four trefoiled four- 

 teenth-century lights in its north wall, partly modern- 

 ized, and the west window, of two trefoiled lights, is 

 modern. The south aisle has similar windows, but 

 in place of the second from the east is a plain four- 

 teenth-century doorway. 



At the west end of the nave is a gallery lighted by 

 a modern three-light window, and beneath it a west 

 door of good twelfth-century style, and looking earlier 

 than the other twelfth-century work. The semi- 

 circular arch has a plain inner order, and an outer 

 order ornamented with a roll and zigzag, springing 

 from nook-shafts with scalloped capitals. Its south 

 jamb and part of the arch are in large stones of later 

 date than the rest, perhaps fifteenth-century work, and 

 the arch has doubtless been moved from its original 

 position, which may have been in the south wall of 

 the nave. Over it is a porch of 1844 in twelfth- 

 century style. 



The roofs of the church are ceiled, except in the 

 north chapel, and at the east end of the south chapel 

 is a fourteenth-century truss. The nave walls have a. 

 line of stone corbels on both sides at plate level, and 

 corbels which carried part of the rood-loft remain in 

 the east angles of the nave. 



The font, at the west end of the south aisle, is 

 modern, octagonal with panelled sides. 



The pulpit is octagonal, the upper part of good 

 early seventeenth-century work, with arched panels and 

 a projecting book-board carried on scrolled brackets ;. 

 no other wood fittings are old, and the only monu- 

 ment of interest is a brass plate on the south side 

 of the chancel to Henry Audley, 1606, a copy of 

 whose will is kept among the church papers. 



There are four bells, the treble by Joshua Kipling, 

 1737 ; the second by Richard Flory of Salisbury, 

 1677 ; the third, of 1603, inscribed 'Give God the 

 glory,' R.B. ; and the tenor by Warner, 1867. 



The plate includes an interesting pre-Reformation 

 paten, 5^ in. diameter, parcel gilt, with a vernicle in 

 a six-lobed depression. Its date is c. 1520. There 

 is also an Elizabethan communion cup of 1562, a, 

 flagon of 1834, a standing paten of 1844, two silver- 

 topped glass cruets, and an old pewter plate. 



The first book of the registers runs from 1677 to- 

 1759, but there are two loose pages with entries of 

 marriages 16747, and burials 1673-7. The second 

 book is the marriage register 1754-92, and the third 

 contains baptisms and burials 1759-98. The fourth 

 continues the baptisms and burials, and the fifth the 

 marriages, to 1813 and 1812 respectively. There are 

 two pages of churchwardens' accounts for 1 68 1, and 

 consecutive accounts for 17251818. 



The church of ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST, 

 HYTHE, erected in 1874, is of red brick, with Bath 

 stone dressings, in thirteenth-century style. The 

 register dates from 1823. 



A chapel in Fawley is mentioned 

 JDrOirSONS in Domesday Book. 76 The living 

 is a rectory, and has always been 

 in the gift of the bishop of Winchester. There is a 

 chapel of ease at Langley licensed for divine service. 

 Exbury was a chapelry of Fawley until 1868. The 

 two formed one of the ' peculiar benefices ' of the 

 bishop of Winchester. 77 Hythe was separated from 

 Fawley in 1841," and formed into an ecclesiastical 

 parish. The living is a titular vicarage in the gift of 

 the rector of Fawley. 



Fawley contains a Primitive Methodist chapel and 

 a Wesleyan chapel, and there is a Baptist chapel at 

 Blackfields, and a Congregational chapel at Hythe. 



Mary Trattle by will, proved 1868, 

 CHAR11T bequeathed a legacy and a share of resi- 

 duary estate, now represented by i, 068 

 9*. zd. consols (with the official trustees) upon trust 

 that the income should be applied, one-half in the 

 distribution of beef to the poor at Christmas, and the 

 other half in providing them with blankets or articles 

 of clothing. 



The annual dividends, amounting to 26 I4/., are 

 duly applied. 



V.C.H. Hants, i, 467*. 



H Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, App. 



s Land. Gax. 21 Dec. 1841. 



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