FAWLEY HUNDRED MARTYR WORTHY 



About the year 1677 it became united with Kilmeston 



Plunkenet, and in 1739 Henry Lacie and his wife, 



John Caryil, William Lacie, and George Lacie sold 



the manor of Kilmeston Gymming or Plunkenet to 



George Ridge." The Ridges 



apparently held the manor for 



some time, and ultimately sold 



it to Robert Westley Hall, 



from whom in 1810 it was 



bought for 19,152 8*. S</.* 8 



by Edmund Smith, 13,000 



of the purchase money being 



raised by a mortgage on the 



estate to Richard and John 



Sparkes and Sarah ShurfocL" 

 Walter Long purchased the 



whole manor from Edmund 



Smith and the mortgagees in 



1812,* and it has remained 



in his family ever since ; 



Mr. Walter Long of The Holt, Beauworth, being 



lord of the manor at the present day. 



The church of ST. ANDREW is in 

 CHURCH plan a simple rectangle with a modern 

 south aisle and north porch, and any 

 ancient features which it may possess are hidden by 

 plastering and ivy. There is no structural division 

 between nave and chancel. With the exception of the 

 east window of the chancel, which has modern three- 

 light tracery of fourteenth-century style, all the win- 

 dows in the church, two in the chancel and five in 

 the nave, are single lancets of decidedly modern appear- 

 ance. The north door has a plain chamfered pointed 

 arch, covered with plaster, and impossible to date, and 

 the south arcade of the nave is of two bays in modern 

 brickwork, with a vestry at the west of the aisle. The 

 roof is tiled, and at the west is a wooden bell-turret with 



LONG OF THE HOLT. 

 Sable a lion between four 

 crosslets argent -with two 

 faunches argent each 

 charged -with three cross- 

 lets sable. 



a leaded spire, containing one bell dated 1772 without 

 further inscription. 



The font is urn-shaped, of the eighteenth century, 

 and there are no old fittings in the church, except that 

 below the south window of the chancel is a piscina 

 and a square locker. 



The plate includes an interesting and perhaps local 

 cup, with a trumpet-shaped bowl, on which is a band 

 of incised ornament, and a spreading conical foot. It 

 is without marks, and in spite of the incised band of 

 ornament is probably of the latter part of the seven- 

 teenth century. There is also a standing paten of 



1700. 



The first book of the registers, which contains a 

 memorandum that it was bought I June, 1671, at 

 Winchester, runs from 1661 to 1812, and there is also 

 an overseer's book of accounts beginning in 1691. 



There was a chapel in Kilmeston 

 at the time of the Domesday Survey, 31 

 which was annexed to the rectory of 

 Cheriton, and the advowson therefore followed the 

 descent of Cheriton (q.v.). By an order in council, 

 however, dated 4 February, 1879, the chapelnes of 

 Kilmeston and Beauworth were separated from the 

 old rectory of Cheriton and formed into a distinct 

 parish for ecclesiastical purposes. The living is now 

 a vicarage in the gift of the crown. 



In 1 706 Dame Mary Sadlier by her 

 CHARITIES will proved this date in P.C.C. be- 

 queathed 100 to be laid out in land 

 or otherwise, profits to go towards teaching poor chil- 

 dren to read and write. A moiety of the legacy was 

 lost through the insolvency of the holder, the remain- 

 ing 50, with accumulations, was in 1803 invested in 

 124. I9/. \\d. consols, held by the official trustees. 

 The dividends are now applied in connexion with the 

 National School." 



MARTYR WORTHY 



Wurdia la Martre, Wordia, Worthi Martre (xiii 



The parish of Martyr Worthy cum Chilland covers 

 about 2,060 acres, rising from the low-lying ground 

 near the Itchen in the south, to the high ridge of 

 down land which stretches north of the Itchen valley. 

 Of the whole area 1,438 acres are arable land, 400$ 

 are permanent grass, and 22oJ are woodland. 1 The 

 north of the parish, through the north-west corner of 

 which runs the Roman road from Winchester to 

 Basingstoke, is one long stretch of down land and open 

 field, with here and there a tract of woodland, in- 

 cluding Brentwood and Schroner Cottage Wood. 

 Budgitts Farm is on high ground, almost in the centre 

 of the south. Further south, running from east to 

 west, is the railway line of the Alton branch of the 

 London and South-Western Railway, on which is 

 Itchen Abbas station, about half a mile east of Martyr 

 Worthy village. South of and almost parallel with the 

 railway line runs the main road from Winchester to 

 Alresford, passing south of Worthy Park, the residence 

 of Captain Charles Fryer, M.P., as it enters the 

 parish from the west. The house of Worthy Park, a 

 fine mansion of white stone, standing in the midst of 



well-wooded country, is in this parish, although 

 much of the estate stretches into Abbot's Worthy. 

 South of the main road, nearly a mile east of Worthy 

 Park, is the village of Martyr Worthy, on a branch road, 

 almost a lane, leading down to the Itchen. The 

 church of St. Swithun stands on the west, well sheltered 

 behind thick-growing trees. North-west of the church 

 are the schools and the old rectory, a square red-brick 

 house, from which a fine view can be obtained to the 

 south, across the Itchen valley, over the village of 

 Easton, away to the down land and the dark wood- 

 land of Avington Park. Four or five groups of 

 thatched and timbered cottages compose the village, 

 several being actually in the meadow land close to 

 the river, over the several tributaries of which narrow 

 bridges lead to Easton. 



Half a mile up the river, east of the village, is 

 Chilland Mill, close by which are the offices of the 

 Itchen Trout Breeding Association. The little hamlet 

 of Chilland itself lies on the slope north of the mill, 

 and consists of a few cottages and several modern 

 houses, lying for the most part along the narrow road 

 which leads up from the mill to the main road. A 

 picturesque modern house, with grounds sloping down 



Note of F. Hants, Mich. 13 Geo. II. 

 < Recov. R. Hil. 52 Geo. Ill, m. 90. 



Ibid. M Ibid. m. 96. 



V.C.H. Hantt, i, 460. 



3 2 5 



' Ibid, ii, ' Schools.' 

 1 Statistics of Bd. of Agric. (1905). 



