BISHOP'S WALTHAM HUNDRED 



UPHAM 



The west tower is in great part a rebuilding in 

 brick, on its north face being a stone with the date 

 1700. It has a plain pointed east arch, a plastered 

 west doorway, and over it a round-headed window. 



In the vestry is a panel of slate in a frame, dated 

 1756, and recording the names of the 'singers' of 

 that time. 



There are six bells of 1761, all by Thomas Swain. 



There are two chalices, a paten, a flagon, and an 

 alms dish of Sheffield plate, also a silver chalice 1901, 

 and paten 1898, and a silver-mounted glass flagon of 

 1897. 



The registers down to 1812 are contained in three 

 books, the oldest having baptisms and burials 1598 

 1734, with a gap in the burials from 1602 to 1640, 

 and marriages 1622-1734. The second runs from 

 1734 to 1772, and the third from 1773 to 1812. 



The churchwardens' accounts for 1640-60 are 

 preserved. 



Upham being a part of the manor 



4DVOWSON of Bishop's Waltham, the advowson 



of the church was in the hands of 



the bishop of Winchester, lord of the manor," being 



one of his ' peculiar benefices.' I0 As in the case of all 

 the churches in this manor, Henry de Blois, bishop of 

 Winchester (1129-71) made a grant of Upham 

 advowson to the hospital of St. Cross, Winchester." 

 Upham was, however, once more in the hands of the 

 bishop by 1284, being among those advowsons to 

 which the monks of St. Swithun, Winchester, finally 

 agreed to renounce all claim in favour of the bishop. 18 

 After this date Upham continued to follow the history 

 of Bishop's Waltham manor, the advowson being 

 specifically mentioned in the grant by Edward VI to 

 William, earl of Wiltshire, of those manors, &c., 

 which had fallen to the crown by the surrender of 

 Bishop Poynet. 19 In 1852 an exchange of benefices 

 was effected between the bishops of Winchester and 

 Lichfield, and the patronage of Upham was trans- 

 ferred to Lichfield. 10 In the following year Durley, 

 which had hitherto been served by a curate as a 

 chapelry of Upham, was separated from it. In 1890 

 the patronage of Upham was transferred to the Lord 

 Chancellor, in whose gift it still remains. 



There is a Bible Christian Chapel at Lower 

 Upham. 



15 Winton Epia. Reg. Egerton MSS. 

 2031-4; ffy/teiam'i Rig. (Hants Rec. 

 Soc.), i, App. 561. 



16 Valor Ecd. (Rec. Com.), ii, App. 

 1? Harl. MS. 1616, fol. 9. 

 18 Add. MSS. 29364. 



19 Pat. 5 Edw. VI, pt. 4, m. 39. 

 *> Lond. Gax. 4 June, 1852. 



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