A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



chambers, with brewhouse, malthouse, stables, barns, 

 a hop garden and bowling green. More than 700 

 acres of land were attached to the manor, including a 

 common containing loo acres. 7 Hinton Ampner was 

 recovered by the Cathedral Church at the Restoration 

 and was again held by the Stewkeleys, who must have 

 obtained the fee-simple of the manor about this date ; 

 although no record of this has been found. 8 From the 

 Stewkeleys it passed to the Stawells, by the marriage in 

 1719 of Mary, daughter and heiress of Sir Hugh 

 Stewkeley, with Edward, fourth and last Baron Stawell.* 

 Lord Stawell left a daughter and heiress Mary, who 

 was created baroness Stawell 

 in 1759 ; she married as her 

 first husband the Hon. Henry 

 Bilson - Legge, who became 

 Baron Stawell in right of his 

 wife ;* and from this time 

 onwards the descent of the 

 manor follows that of Bed- 

 hampton (q.v.). 11 The manor 

 was held by paying a septen- 

 nial fine, which was enfran- 

 chised by the Hon. John 

 Button in 1863." The lord 

 of the manor at the present 

 day is Mr. Henry Dutton. 

 View of frankpledge and rights 

 of free warren in Hinton 



BlLSON-LlGGE. Axure 



a hart's head argent, for 

 LEGGE, quartered with 

 Azure a rase argent parted 

 with a pomegranate or 

 having a stalk and leaves 

 vert, for BILSON. 



Ampner were granted to the dean and chapter under 

 the grant of the manor to them in 1542." 



The church of ALL S4INTS has 

 CHURCH suffered from ' restoration ' more se- 

 verely than many of its neighbours," 

 but is still of great interest as preserving its pre-Con- 

 quest plan and a few details of 

 that date. It has a chancel 

 15 ft. 8 in. wide by 21 ft. 

 long, and a nave 21 ft. 10 in. 

 wide by 47 ft. with walls 

 2 ft. 6 in. thick of flint rubble 

 with ashlar dressings. There 

 is a north-west vestry to the 

 nave, a west bell-turret, and a 

 south porch, all being modern. 

 The chancel shows little traces 

 of age, all its details having 

 been reworked. It has a pair 

 of lancets in its east wall, two 

 in the north wall, and two 



in the south, and at the south-west a priest's door 

 and a low-set lancet window, all of thirteenth- 

 century style. At the south-east is a double piscina 

 with a shelf and a recess in the back below the shelf. 

 The chancel arch is modern, as are all the windows 

 of the nave, of which there are four on the north, 

 three on the south, and two at the west, with a 

 trefoiled opening between them. The south doorway 

 is also modern. 



The remains of pre-Conquest work are as follows : 

 part of the north-east quoin of the nave, two pilaster 

 strips in the nave walls, one on the north and one on 

 the south, set at 6 ft. westward from the eastern 



DUTTON. Quarterly 

 argent and gules, the 

 gules frttty or, viith the 

 difference of a crescent. 



angles, and a doorway now leading to the modern 

 north-west vestry, and formerly the south doorway of 

 the nave, its position being further eastward than 

 the present south doorway. The doorway has square 

 jambs without a rebate, long and short quoins, and a 

 round arch with a chamfered label, which may have 

 been recut, the doorway not being in its original 

 position. All this early work is in Binstead oolite, 

 used in pre-Conquest work at Corhampton, Tich- 

 borne, Hambledon, and elsewhere. The vestry door 

 has panels with mitred mouldings on one panel, 

 with an inscription recording that ' Nicholas Lacy gave 

 this doore February, 1643.' No other woodwork in 

 the church is ancient, and the font, near the south 

 door of the nave, is modern. 



The monuments are interesting. On the south 

 wall of the chancel, east of the piscina, are some 

 small brass plates to the memory of William son of 

 Sir Thomas Stewkeley, 1606, Katherine daughter of 

 Sir Humphrey Drewe of Little Gidding, 1599, and 

 Edward Drewe, 1 60 1 . On the north wall is a brass 

 plate to Sir Hugh Stewkeley, 1612, with a shield of 

 arms above it, and others to Thomas his son, 1638, 

 Elizabeth his daughter, 1667, and Elizabeth, widow 

 of Sir Thomas Stewkeley, 1648. On the north wall 

 also is a painted marble and alabaster monument with 

 the effigy of an infant son of the Stewkeley family, 

 1638, and on the south wall is the monument of an 

 infant son of Thomas Stewkeley, 1 60 1. At the 

 south-west corner of the nave is a large white marble 

 mural monument to Henry Bilson-Legge, 1764. 



There are three bells, the treble inscribed : ' Serv 

 God I W 1603.,' the second 'Fere God I W, 1603.,' 

 and tenor 'In God is my hope, 1610.' The latter 

 is by the unidentified founder I.H. (possibly John 

 Higden), the other two by John Wallis of Salisbury. 



The plate consists of a cup of 1745, with a paten 

 of 1879, both bought in 1880 ; a flagon, circa 1704, 

 and an almsdish of 1 740. The old communion plate 

 was sold in 1880, and is now in a private collection. 

 The present cup and paten were bought from the 

 proceeds of the sale. 



The first book of the registers contains baptisms and 

 burials 15411774, and the second marriages 1561 

 1754. The third continues the marriages to 1813. 



At the time of the Domesday 

 4DyOWSON Survey there was a church in 

 Hinton Ampner which was worth 

 40*., but was assessed at 50*." In 1284 the king 

 gave up to John, bishop of Winchester, all his right 

 in the advowson of this church." In 1291 the 

 church was taxed at 6," and by 1535 the value had 

 risen to 22." 



The bishop presented to the living of Hinton 

 Ampner until nearly the end of last century," when 

 the dean and chapter of Winchester became the 

 patrons." 



The living is now a rectory, net yearly value 300, 

 with residence and 1 1 8 acres of glebe. 



Charity of William Blake for 



CHARITIES Charity School. In 1738, William 



Blake by his will proved in the 



P.C.C. founded and endowed a charity school in this 



' Close, 1650, pt. 5, m. 43. 



8 Add. MSS. Stowe, 845, fol. 41. 



9 Banks, Dormant and Extinct Baronet- 

 age, iii, 675-6. M Ibid. 



11 Information supplied by Mr. Henry 

 Dutton. u Ibid. 



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



14 Some 60 years since ; information 

 from Rev. E. C. Peake. 



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



16 Chart. R. I z Edw. I, m, 5 . 



V Pope Nicb. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 211. 



322 



18 Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, II. 



Inst. Bks. (P.R.O.). Jonathan Ed- 

 wards, who became rector in 1 68 1, figured 

 prominently in the Socinian and Antino 

 mian controversies. Diet. Nat. Biog. 



*> Clergy List, 1895. 



