A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



the bishop. 15 The whole manor of Chilcomb was 

 valued in the time of Edward the Confessor at 

 73 los. ; in 1086 the amount held by the monks 

 -was worth 80, and that held by the tenants 24..'* 



The manor of Chilcomb, together with many other 

 manors and lands, was confirmed to the prior and 

 monks of St. Swithun in 1205," and again in 1285,'" 

 and remained in their possession until the time of the 

 Dissolution. 19 



In 1535 the manor of Chilcomb was included 

 among the St. Swithun's temporalities, and was 

 assessed at 48 1 1/. 20 Upon the dissolution of the 

 priory Chilcomb manor was granted to the dean and 

 chapter of Winchester," and remained in their hands 

 until about the year 1893, when it was purchased by 

 Mr. George Parker of Winchester, the present 

 owner." 



At the time of the Domesday Survey there were 

 four mills in Chilcomb worth 4, but there seem to 

 be no later records concerning them.* 3 



The church of ST. ANDREW is a 

 CHURCHES small building with chancel 1 7 ft. 4 in. 

 by 1 3 ft. 6 in., and nave 30 ft. 6 in. 

 by 1 7 ft. 8 in., with south porch, and a wooden bell 

 turret over the west end of the nave. It is a plain 

 little country church of about 113040, standing on 

 the side of the down above the village, and in its 

 essential features not much altered from its original 

 condition. The chancel arch is semicircular of one 

 square order with chamfered strings at the springing, 

 ornamented with zigzag on the vertical faces. The 

 north window of the chancel, a plain, round-headed 

 light, remains untouched, but on the south is a tall 

 and narrow thirteenth-century lancet and a square- 

 headed fifteenth-century window of two cinquefoiled 

 Jights, with a little old white and gold glass in the 

 heads. The east window, of two square-headed lights 

 with a quatrefoil over, is probably of no great age in 

 its present condition, and at the west end of the north 

 wall is a low-set round-headed opening, now blocked. 

 At the north-east angle is a plain recess with a pointed 

 arch, and the chancel arch is filled with a wooden 

 screen of very rough Gothic design, perhaps of early 

 seventeenth-century date. In the chancel floor are 

 some good fifteenth-century glazed tiles with im- 

 pressed slip patterns of usual types, lions, griffins, 

 eagles, fleurs-de-lis, &c. 



The nave has two small round-headed north win- 

 dows, with internal rebates, the western of the two 

 being set higher in the wall than the other, and its 

 sill cut off by a late mural monument. In the south 

 wall is a single round-headed window, widened and 

 modernized, and a plain, round-headed south doorway 

 of original date. The north doorway is of the same 

 character, but blocked, all the twelfth-century work 

 being in Binstead stone. 



The west window is of the fifteenth century with 

 two cinquefoiled lights and a cinquefoil in the head, 

 and over the chancel arch are two pointed openings 

 cut square through the gable, which probably held 



bells. The walls are of flint rubble, originally plas- 

 tered over, but now stripped and pointed, the chancel 

 walls being still plastered, and the roofs are red-tiled, 

 the nave roof being hipped at the west. On the 

 south-east quoin of the nave is an incised sundial. 



The south porch is modern. 



The roofs of nave and chancel are old, with trussed 

 rafters, as are the main timbers of the bell-turret, 

 which has weather-boarded sides and a red-tiled roof. 



All internal fittings are modern, the font, with a 

 small bowl on an octagonal shaft, standing on a 

 marble coffin-lid with a much damaged cross of 

 fourteenth-century date. 



There are two bells, but pits for three, in the 

 turret. The treble is of 1628, inscribed 'In God is 

 my hope,' with the founder's initials I H (possibly 

 for John Higden) and G R on the waist, and the 

 tenor is a fifteenth-century bell from the Wokingham 

 foundry bearing the characteristic cross, groat, and 

 lion's face, but no inscription. 



The plate consists of a communion cup and cover 

 paten of 1569, a paten of 1683 bought with a 

 bequest of 40*. made in 1680, and a pewter flagon 

 and two alms dishes. All Saints' church possesses a 

 silver gilt set of plate, consisting of two chalices, two 

 patens, and a flagon, of modern date. 



The first book of the registers contains all entries, 

 15561798, the second has baptisms and burials, and 

 the third marriages, 1799-1812. 



The modern church of ALL SAINTS already men- 

 tioned is of rough flint and brick, in thirteenth- 

 century style. 



At the time of the Domesday 

 ADFOWSON Survey there were nine churches in 

 Chilcomb, seven of which evidently 

 belonged to the seven smaller manors which were 

 included in Chilcomb, and the remaining two to 

 Chilcomb itself." Of these one became the parish 

 church, and the other a dependent chapelry attached 

 to it. In 1284 the king gave up to John bishop of 

 Winchester and his successor all his right in the 

 advowson of Chilcomb with the chapel of St. Cathe- 

 rine. 25 



At the time of Pope Nicholas's taxation the church 

 of Chilcomb, together with a chapel attached, was 

 assessed at 6 1 3*. 4<z'., !6 and by 1535 the value of 

 the rectory of Chilcomb had risen to 10." At the 

 same date St. Swithun's prior owned a pension of 

 l 6s. 8d. from Chilcomb church.' 8 



In 1657, in accordance with the Act providing 

 that no living should have a stipend less than 100 a 

 year, the parishes of Chilcomb and Morestead with 

 benefices of the value of 60 and 40 respectively 

 were united for a time under one incumbent, the 

 presentation being made jointly by the patrons of the 

 two churches. The services were held alternately at 

 either church. 89 



Since 1284 the advowson of the church of St. 

 Andrew has been in the hands of the bishop of 

 Winchester. 30 



15 The lands held by these seven tenants 

 were most probably the seven small 

 manors of Winnall, Morestead, St. Faith, 

 Compton, Weeke, Littleton, and Sparsholt 

 included in Chilcomb at this time. 



16 V.C.H. Hants, i, 463. 

 l " Cal. Pap. Letters, i, 2 1 . 



18 Cal. of Chart. R. 1257-1500, p. 288. 



19 Feud. Aids, ii, 320. In 1280 Alice 

 and Joan, daughters of Geoffrey de Chil- 



comb, granted one messuage and 40 acres 

 of land in Chilcomb to the prior and con- 

 vent for the rent of 201. and two cor- 

 rodies (Feet of F. 9 Edw. I). 



30 Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), vi, App. vi. 



51 Pat. 33 Hen. VIII, pt. 9, m. 34-40 ; 

 L. and P. Hen. VIII, xvi, 417; Mins. 

 Accts. 32 & 33 Hen. VIII, R. 109, m. 



45. 4 6 - 



22 Information supplied by Mr. Parker. 



3 l6 



23 V.C.H. Hants, 1,463. Ibid. 



25 Chart. R. 12 Edw. I, m. 5. 



26 Pope Nich. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 210. 

 " Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 6. 



28 Ibid, vi, App. 10 ; Dugdale, Man. i, 

 218. 



29 Aug. of Ch. Livings, vol. 991, fol. 

 464. 



o ffykbam's Reg. (Hants Rec. Soc.), 

 i, 39 ; Inst. Bks. (P.R.O.). 



