A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



WINNALL 



Wynhale, Wylehall (xiv-xv cent.) ; Wynhall, Winn- 

 all (xvi xvii cent.). 



Winnall is a small parish of about 533 acres 

 lying to the north-east of Winchester, at the foot of 

 St. Giles Hill, seeming to be locally part of Win- 

 chester. The village lies in the south, the few cottages 

 being grouped along a road which is a continuation 

 of Water Street (Winchester). This road runs 

 north through the downland which composes the rest 

 of the parish, directly to Easton. 



The small picturesque church of St. Martin stands 

 at the upper end of the village street on the west 

 almost immediately opposite the rectory, and a little 

 to the east of the church lie Winnall Farm and the 

 manor-house. The Didcot, Newbury, and Winchester 

 Branch of the Great Western Railway runs along the 

 eastern side of the parish, with its nearest station at 

 Winchester. The River Itchen, as it curves south 

 below the Worthies, flows along the western border- 

 line of the parish through low-lying meadows which 

 are constantly flooded. 



Since the extension of the boundaries of the 

 borough of Winchester the greater part of Winnall 

 has been included in the borough, and since the Local 

 Government Board order, dated September, 1894, 

 the rural parts of Winnall have become part of the 

 parish of Chilcomb Without. 



WINNALL was probably one of the 

 MdNOR seven small manors included in Chilcomb 

 (q.v.) in 1086.' 



It was evidently confirmed to the prior and con- 

 vent of St. Swithun in 1205, together with Chil- 

 comb and most of the land round Winchester,* and 

 it remained in their possession until the time of 

 the Dissolution,* when the manor, together with the 



rectory, was granted by Henry VIII to the dean and 

 chapter of Winchester ; 4 it has now become absorbed 

 in the borough of Winchester. 



In 1651 the Commissioners for the Sale of Bishops' 

 Lands sold I 3 acres of arable land in the parish of 

 Winnall to Nicholas Love.' 



The church of ST. M4RTIN was 

 CHURCH rebuilt in 1858 of flint and stone in 

 thirteenth-century style. It consists of 

 a chancel, nave, south porch, and western turret con- 

 taining one bell by W. and R. Cor of Aldbourne, 1713. 



The plate is a modern set, consisting of silver 

 chalice, paten, flagon, and almsdish of 1872, given by 

 the Misses Knight. There are also two plated alms- 

 dishes and a pewter flagon. 



The register of baptisms dates from 1680, of 

 marriages from 1699, and of burials from 1697. 



The church of St. Martin, Winn- 



4DPOWSON all, was probably one of the nine 



churches included under Chilcomb 



in the Domesday Survey. 6 In 1291 it was assessed 



at j8, 7 but by 1335 the rectory was only valued at 



3 & 8^.' 



The advowson is now and always has been in the 

 hands of the bishop.' The rectorial tithes were con- 

 firmed with the manor to the prior and convent of 

 St. Swithun in 1205,' and remained in their posses- 

 sion until the Dissolution. In 1541 they passed with 

 the manor to the dean and chapter of Winchester." 



In 1859 Henry Knight, by will 

 CHARITIES proved this date, left 150 consols, 

 income to be applied by minister and 

 churchwardens on 20 February in each year (the 

 anniversary of his birthday) in distribution of bread, 

 fuel, or money, among the necessitous poor of the parish. 



THE LIBERTY OF ALRESFORD 



Kinewald, king of the West Saxons, on his conver- 

 sion to Christianity about the middle of the seventh 

 century, granted forty mansae at Alresford, afterwards 

 forming the LIBERT!" of 4LRESFORD, to the 

 church at Winchester free from all secular service 

 except the trinoda necessitas. 1 



This grant was confirmed by King Ine in 701,' 

 and again by King Egbert between 825 and 831.* 

 Towards the end of the ninth century Bishop 

 Denewulf leased the forty hides at Alresford to his 

 kinsman Alfred for life. 4 However, a charter of 

 909 shows that Alfred during his tenure was in- 

 dicted for crime, and the estate was therefore forfeited 

 and only redeemed by Denewulf at the cost of a 



valuable offering. 5 Further, to prevent the recurrence 

 of such a scandal King Edward decreed that no lay- 

 man should be granted a lease of church property. 

 However in 956 King Edwy was prevailed upon by 

 ^Elfric son of Alfred to restore to him the forty 

 hides at Alresford ; 6 but this grant was annulled in 

 964 by King Edgar, who restored to the church of 

 Winchester ' with most humble devotion land seized 

 from the said church by money-lovers.' ' After this 

 the bishop remained in quiet possession of his liberty, 

 and was holding it in 1086, as forty- two hides, of 

 which seventeen were leased to various tenants. 8 The 

 boundaries of the liberty, as given in early charters, 

 are somewhat difficult to trace, 9 but the entry in 



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

 'Dugdale, Man. i, zn; Cal. of Pap. 

 Letters, i, 21. 



8 Feud. Aids, ii, 320. 



4 Pat. 33 Hen. VIII, pt. 9, m. 

 34-40. 



5 Close, 1651, pt. 37, No. 18. 

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



7 Pope Nicb. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 210. 

 <> Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 5. 



Wykcbam's Reg. (Hants Rec. Soc.), 

 i, 31, 177, 219 ; Inst. Bks. (P.R.O.). 



10 Cal. of Pap. Letters, i, zi. 



11 Pat. 33 Hen. VIII, pt. 9, m. 



34-4- 



1 Dugdale, Man. i, 210. 

 8 Birch, Cart. Sax. i, 148. 

 Ibid, i, 554. 

 1 Ibid, ii, 280. 

 5 Ibid, ii, 291. 



348 



6 Birch, Cart. Sax* iii, 115. 



7 Ibid, iii, 404. 



8 y.C.H. Hants, i, 459. 



* In the charters the following occur 

 as boundaries t Cendefer, Hremmes- 

 cumbes geate, Dregtune, Ticieburnan, and 

 Icenan. They can be identified respec- 

 tively as Brown Candover, Rampscombe 

 Farm, Drayton Farm, Tichborne, and the 

 Itchen. 



