BISHOP'S WALTHAM HUNDRED 



inscription 'The gift of Mrs. Katherine Palmer to 

 Jesus Chapel,' and her coat of arms. Mrs. Palmer 

 died before 1674, and the hall-mark on the flagons 

 is 1665-6. It should be added that in an old list 

 of benefactors, drawn up early in the eighteenth cen- 

 tury, it is said that flagons, chalice, and paten were 

 all bequeathed by Mrs. Palmer to Jesus Chapel, but 

 this was probably an error made by the vicar who 

 drew up the list. 



Its earliest registers are transcripts from South 

 Shoreham, having one entry of 1671, and then a 

 series from 1681 to 1699. The first complete book 

 runs from 1699 to 1708, and the second is a copy of 

 it continued to 1712, with scattered entries after- 

 wards one of 1713, three of 1717, several from 

 1723 to 1729, and four marriage entries between 

 1733 and 1741. The third book has entries 1733- 

 43, and the fourth 1743-1812, no marriages being 

 registered after the passing of the Act of 1753. 



The church of the HOLT TRINITT, WESTON, 

 is a stone building in fourteenth-century style. The 

 register dates from 1 866. 



The church of ST. MART, SHOLING, a building 

 of stone, in the thirteenth-century style, was erected 

 in 1866, and the register dates from the same year. 



Jesus chapel, later known as Pear 

 JDrOfTSON Tree Church, from its site on Pear 

 Tree Green, has never been formally 

 separated from the mother church of St. Mary's, 

 Southampton. The living was a curacy in the 

 gift of the founder, Captain Richard Smith of 

 Pear Tree, governor of Calshot Castle. In 1685 

 the patronage was sold to Mrs. Mylles of Pear 

 Tree House, from whom it descended by marriage to 

 the family of Davies. In 1881 Mrs. Davies trans- 

 ferred the patronage to the rector of St. Mary's 

 Southampton, in return for an annual endowment of 

 the living out of the tithes of that church. In 1896 



ST. MARY 

 EXTRA 



a scheme was sanctioned by the Ecclesiastical Com- 

 missioners for the further endowment of Jesus Chapel 

 out of the revenues of St. Mary's, the result of the 

 arrangement being the transference of the patronage 

 to the bishop of Winchester, the diocesan, in whose 

 hands it still remains. The living is now a vicarage. 17 



Until 1855 Pear Tree Church was the only one 

 in that part of the parish of St. Mary's Southamp- 

 ton which lies on the left bank of the River Itchen. 

 In that year, as before mentioned, the Rev. P. Hulton 

 erected a building now used as a Sunday school at 

 Weston, to act as a chapel of ease to Pear Tree 

 Church. He supplemented this a few years later by 

 building a church, consecrated in 1865 as the church 

 of Holy Trinity, Weston. His son, who succeeded 

 him as vicar in 1870, accepted a grant for the aug- 

 mentation of the living from the Ecclesiastical Com- 

 missioners, and this involved the transference of the 

 patronage of the benefice to the bishop of the 

 diocese.* 8 The ecclesiastical parish was formed in 

 1866." 



Sholing was formed into a consolidated chapelry in 

 1867, out of the parishes of Hound and St. Mary 

 Extra. The living is a vicarage in the gift of the 

 bishop of Winchester. 



There is a Congregational chapel, built in 1838, in 

 St. Mary Extra parish. At Sholing there is a mission 

 room, and chapels for the Primitive Methodists, 

 Baptists, and Plymouth Brethren. 



Charity of Nathaniel Mill. See 

 CHARITIES Southampton Municipal Charities. 



The following payments are made 

 out of the dividends of a sum of 1,525 2 io/. 

 per cent, annuities, held by the official trustees in 

 trust for this charity, namely, l 14*. \d. to the 

 minister of Jesus Chapel, I jt. \d. for repair of same 

 chapel, 1 I4/. 4</. for the poor of this parish, and 

 i 3/. SJ. for a coat or gown to a poor person. 



UPHAM 



The parish of Upham consists oi 2,883 acres, of 

 which approximately 1,596 are arable land, i,oi8j 

 permanent grass, and 556^ woods and plantations.' 

 It lies on the southern slope of the downs, and is 

 some four miles long from north-west to south-west, 

 its greatest width being about two miles at the upper 

 end, while the southern portion varies from a mile and 

 a quarter to half a mile in width. The levels rise 

 from a height of 130 ft. on the southern boundary of 

 the parish, to about 420 ft. at the north-east, on the 

 slopes of Millbarrow Down. As in the case of the 

 parishes of Bishop's Waltham and Droxford, the country 

 falls geologically into two portions, the chalk of the 

 down land and the clay of the valley. The old road 

 from Waltham to Winchester crosses the north of the 

 parish, passing Belmore House, the residence of Mr. 

 Kinnard, and running through a splendid grove of 

 beech trees near the north-west boundary of the 

 parish. Except on Stephen's Castle Down the country 

 is beautifully wooded, the lanes being thickly shaded 



with oaks. Some two and a half miles to the south- 

 west, the new road from Waltham to Winchester 

 traverses the south end of the parish in a parallel 

 direction to the old road ; the two are connected by 

 a third, which runs north-east and south-west up the 

 middle of the parish, with smaller roads branching off 

 on either side. On this central road, on an outlying 

 spur of the downs, stands the main portion of the 

 village, including the church, the vicarage, the manor- 

 house, the ' Brushmakers Arms,' and the school, which 

 occupies the site of the old brush factory. To the 

 north-west is Stroudwood Common, inclosed in 1860,* 

 and on the south-east the outlying houses of the 

 village are set at irregular intervals down the thickly 

 wooded lane to its junction with the new Winchester 

 road, where is a little group of newer-looking houses 

 in more open country called ' Lower Upham,' at a 

 distance of over a mile from the village proper. In 

 the south-east corner of the parish is the hill called 

 Wintershill, with the house which bears its name ; 



* From information supplied by Rev. Notes, published in the Southampton The return includes lands in adjoining 



T. L. O. Davies, vicar of Woolston. 

 38 Rev. T. L. O. Davies, Hut. 



Tttnet. 



89 Land. Gaz. 27 June, 1873. 



1 Returns of Bd. of Agric. 1905. 



299 



parishes. 



a ParL Blue Books Inclosure 

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