BERMONDSPIT HUNDRED 



NUTLEY 



it in 1828, but no drawing of it seems to be extant. 

 By a rather unusual treatment the inner jambs and 

 rear arches of the fifteenth-century windows have been 

 made to harmonize with the thirteenth-century lancets, 

 having a similar edge roll worked on them. 



The west tower is of three stages with a plain 

 parapet and a north-east stairway, and serves as a 

 porch to the nave. The jambs of its eastern arch are 

 in part of old stonework, and the entrance is from the 

 south through a fine pointed doorway, formerly the 

 north doorway of the nave, of two moulded orders 

 with a dog-tooth label, and nook-shafts with foliate 

 capitals. Several small crosses are scratched on its 

 jambs. Before the building of the tower there was a 

 square wooden turret at the west of the nave, and an 

 external brick stair to a square-headed door in the 

 west wall leading to a gallery. Under the gallery 

 was a square-headed window of three lights. Ex- 

 ternally the ashlar clasping buttresses of the south 

 angles of the nave are preserved, but the chancel 

 has added diagonal angle buttresses. On the nave 

 buttresses are a considerable number of incised 

 sundials. 



At the east end of the north aisle is the organ, 

 screened by the re-used materials of a fine pew which 

 used to stand in the south-east angle of the nave. It 

 has high panelled sides surmounted by open arcades 

 with a carved cornice and turned finials. On the 

 heads of the posts are the initials of Peter and Dorothy 

 Coudray, Richard and Elizabeth Paulet, John and 

 Katherine Paulet, Richard and Anne Paulet, Sir 

 Thomas and Lucy Jervoise, and Sir William and 

 Anne Young, and the dates 1635 and 1819, the 

 latter marking a repair. 



The font, of serpentine, is at the west end of the 

 nave, and is modern, as are all the other fittings of 

 the church. 



In the west window of the north aisle is a little 

 old heraldic glass, with the arms of Popham there 

 was a Coudray-Popham marriage in the fifteenth 



POPHAM. Argent a 

 chief gules -with two 

 harts' heads or. 



century. Below is the upper part of a second shield, 

 per pale indented or and gules. 



At the west end of the aisle is a large slab with the 

 indents of two shields, appa- 

 rently of fifteenth-century date. 



There are three bells ; the 

 treble by a late fourteenth- 

 century London founder, prob- 

 ably John Langhorne, in- 

 scribed : ' Thomas vocor ego 

 Nevile super omnia sono ' ; 

 the second by John Warner, 

 1876 ; the tenor inscribed 

 Nathaniel Hied, 1654. 



The plate consists of a very 

 fine parcel-gilt cup of 1562, 

 unusually richly ornamented, 

 with an inscription recording its repair in 1850 ; 

 a modern paten (1849) engraved to match the cup; 

 a second paten of 1887, and a plated flagon. 



The first book of the registers begins in 1 666, and 

 goes to 1731, the second goes from 1736 to J 79 2 

 and the third from 1791 to 1812. 



Under the Taxation of Pope Nicho- 

 ADVOWSON las the church of Herriard was assessed 

 at 16 I3/. 4</. 46 The Coudray 

 family were patrons until 1333," when Thomas de 

 Coudray granted the advowson in mortmain to the 

 prioress and convent of Wintney. 48 The nuns held 

 the patronage until the Dissolution, 49 when it was 

 granted by letters patent to Sir William Paulet, 50 in 

 whose family it remained for over three centuries. 

 Lord St. John presented in 1664, the marquis of 

 Winchester in 1683, Charles, duke of Bolton in 1736 

 and 1742, Harry, duke of Bolton in 1758, Lord 

 Bolton 1802, William Paulet or Lord Bolton in 1830, 

 and again Lord Bolton in 1835." In 1851 Lord 

 Bolton sold the advowson to Mr. F. J. E. Jervoise, 5 * 

 whose grandson Mr. F. H. T. Jervoise is the present 

 patron. 53 



NUTLEY 



Noclei (Domesday) ; Nutleye, Nuclega, Nutelegha 

 (xiii cent.) ; Nuttele, Nutleghe, Nottele (xiv cent.) ; 

 Nutle, Nutes (xv cent.). 



The parish of Nutley, containing only 1,524 acres 

 of land, lies between Farleigh Wallop and Preston Can- 

 dover on the slope of the high ridge of downland which 

 sweeps down from the north, from a height of over 

 600 ft. above the ordnance datum at Farleigh to less 

 than 300 ft. in the north of Preston Candover. The 

 main road from the Candovers climbing this high 

 country towards Farleigh cuts through the centre of 

 Nutley parish, entering it from the south at Axford, 

 which, with its two fine old thatched farm-houses 

 of the farms of Upper and Lower Axford, is partly in 



Nutley and partly in Preston Candover. Leaving 

 Axford Lodge, the residence of Captain Richard 

 Purefoy, R.N., and the Crown Inn on the east, the road 

 curves slightly west between rising fields and down- 

 land, and then turning due north again approaches the 

 quiet village. To the east, behind short front gardens, 

 is a group of two or three thatched cottages, beyond 

 which a sloping field, rising to the sky-line, runs along 

 the side of the road to the low brick wall which, curv- 

 ing with the road to the east, incloses the farmyard 

 with its pond and some of the thatched outbuildings 

 of the Manor Farm. Opposite, along the west side of 

 the road, run other long straight barns and outbuild- 

 ings of the farm, while the house itself, a substantial 



"Pope Nich. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 212. 



<7 Egerton MSS. 2031, 2032. 



Pat. 8 Edw. Ill, pt. i, m. 28. 



49 Egerton MSS. 2032, 2033, 2034; 

 ffykebam's Reg. (Hants Rec. Soc.), i, 83. 

 In 1403-4 the nuns received a certificate 

 exonerating them from the moiety of the 

 tenth, since ' the priory is a house of poor 

 nuns heavily encumbered. 1 



50 L. and P. Hen. nil, xi, 385 (3). 



" Inst. Bks. P. R. O. 



M Ex inform. Mr. F. H. T. Jervoise. 



53 A Richard de Coudary was rector of 

 the church of Herriard early in the four- 

 teenth century and made an exchange 

 with the church of Exton. The exchange 

 was little to the liking of the parishioners 



of Exton, who had heard that Parson 

 Richard had pledged himself and the goods 

 of Herriard church for his personal debts. 

 They therefore petitioned the authorities 

 at Winchester to forbid Richard under 

 pain of excommunication to do the like 

 deeds at Exton. Reg. Bishop Rigaud de 

 Aa. 475. 



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