A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



probably belonging to the middle of the eleventh 

 century. It has pilaster strips at the eastern angles, 

 and in the centres of the north, south, and east walls 

 of Binstead stone in regular courses, and much wider 

 than the ordinary type of pre-Conquest pilaster, those 

 at the angles being nearly 2 ft. wide on each face, 

 and the others 13 in. Their projection from the 

 wall face, which is of thickly plastered flint rubble, is 

 2 J to 3 in. The original east window of the chancel 

 has been replaced by one of three lights with net 

 tracery, c. 1330, but in the north-east and south-east 

 are single round-headed lights, double splayed, with a 

 central stone slab pierced with a narrow round-headed 

 opening, the masonry being well and accurately 

 worked, with none of the roughness characteristic of 

 work of the end of the eleventh century. 



The original chancel arch, which was doubtless 

 narrow, has been removed, and the wall above is now 

 carried by a plain pointed arch of the full width of 

 the chancel, perhaps of fourteenth-century date, and 

 contemporary with the east window. The roof, which 

 is hidden by a canted plaster ceiling, has a moulded 

 wall plate of fourteenth-century detail, and is probably 

 of the same date. 



The nave, though having no features like those in 

 the chancel, probably preserves its eleventh-century 

 plan. In the latter part of the twelfth century a 

 south aisle was added to it, and plain-pointed arches 

 of a single order, with a central octagonal pier, were 

 cut through the wall. In the north wall similar 

 arches, probably of later date, but without any detail 

 of a decisive character, open to the north aisle, which 

 is the chapel of the Tichborne family, and is inclosed 

 by modern cast-iron railings. It has a square-headed 

 east window of three lights with engaged nook-shafts 

 in the jambs, of early fourteenth-century date, but 

 much modernized, having a stone image bracket to 

 the north of it, and a piscina with projecting bowl on 

 the south. Below is a seventeenth-century altar, with 

 a thick wooden slab, moulded on the front and sides. 

 The roof is of seventeenth-century date, and there is 

 a small north doorway. The south aisle has a two- 

 light window at the east, originally of fourteenth- 

 century date, but with the west and two south 

 windows here it is much modernized. The south 

 door and porch are also of eighteenth-century date, 

 and the red-brick west tower is dated 1703 on a cast- 

 iron slab let into its south face, on which is also a 

 modern sundial. 



On the outer face of the east gable of the nave two 

 blocked pointed arches are to be seen, which may 

 have held bells, like those at Chilcomb. In the west 

 face of the east respond of the south arcade is the 

 doorway to the rood stair, which is continued in the 

 thickness of the wall ; the door itself is probably 

 original, and of fifteenth-century date. 



The font at the west end of the south aisle has 

 a large bowl originally octagonal, but cut back to 

 circular form ; it is ancient but of uncertain date, 



and stands on a modern shaft and a plastered brick 

 base. In the nave are some good seventeenth-century 

 pews, with the Tichborne arms on those at the outh- 

 east, and the Tichborne chapel contains several monu- 

 ments of the family, the oldest being a brass plate to 

 Anne wife of Richard Tichborne, 1519. Against the 

 north wall is a fine alabaster monument to Sir Ben- 

 jamin Tichborne, 1621, and Amphillis, his wife, with 

 their effigies in alabaster and figures of four sons and 

 three daughters on the panelled base. Above are the 

 Tichborne arms quartering Azure three bars wavy 

 argent (Martin) ; Gules a saltire between four boars' 

 heads or (de Racke) ; and Party gules and sable a 

 crosslet fitchy between four fleurs de lis or (Rythe). 



To the west is the monument of Richard son of 

 Sir Richard Tichborne, 1619, and there are others of 

 later date, several hatchments, a helm and a bracket 

 for carrying a helm. 



There are six bells, the treble and tenor by Thomas 

 Mears, 1799 an( ^ 1 79%> l ^ e secon d, third, and fifth by 

 Richard Phelps, 1 737, and the fourth by Warner, 1887. 



The plate consists of a cup of 1569 with cover 

 paten of 1567, with a band of ornament at the lip 

 and three scrolls below it; a paten of 1874, two 

 glass cruets, one of which is silver-mounted, and a 

 plated dish given 1859. 



The earliest register book, dated 1 704, contains an 

 entry of 1667 and one of 1670, and runs to 1812, 

 with marriages to 1744. The second book is the 

 marriage register 1754-1813. 



The chapel of St. Andrew at 



4DVOWSON Tichborne is annexed to Cheriton, 



and the descent of the advowson, 



therefore, is the same as that of Cheriton rectory 



(q.v.). 



The joint net yearly value of the living is 530, 

 with 150 acres of glebe, now in the gift of the crown. 



There was also a chapel belonging to the manor in 

 the sixteenth century," and at the present day there 

 is a Roman Catholic chapel attached to Tichborne 

 House, with a chaplain and missionary priest. 



The chapel of Tichborne is reputed to have been 

 the scene of one of Henry VIII's marriages. 



A chantry was founded in the manorial chapel of 

 Tichborne by Roger Tichborne, son and heir of John 

 Tichborne, ' to the intent to have a priest to cele- 

 brate and do the divine service in the chapel of 

 Tichborne, and to have for his stipend yearly 4 out 

 of the manor of Bromden in the county of Southamp- 

 ton, which manor is parcel of Maudelyn College in 

 Oxford.' " 



It was described as ' within a chapel situated within 

 the manor place of Tichborne a quarter of a mile 

 from the parish church,' " and was maintained at the 

 cost of the Tichborne family." 



The chapel of Monk Sherborne held some land 

 belonging to the Tichborne chantry ; the profits of 

 which ' the warden of the Queen's College in Oxford 

 receiveth, yet by what right it is unknown.' " 



34 Chant. Cert. 51, No. 18. 

 " Ibid. 



Ibid. 



Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 9. 



1 Chant. Cert. 51, No. 18. 



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