A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



the nave dates from c. 1 1 60, and the chancel seems 

 to have been rebuilt in the first half of the thirteenth 

 century, retaining the width and perhaps some of 

 the walling of its twelfth-century predecessor. In its 

 east wall are three lancets under an inclosing arch, 

 much patched with modern stone, but having remains 

 of painted decoration, a zigzag pattern on the rear 

 arch, and masonry patterns on the jambs. A single 

 lancet remains at the east end of the south wall, with 

 a foliate pattern on the head, and west of it is a 

 modern south doorway and a modern arch to the 

 east end of the south aisle, which overlaps the 

 chancel. On the north is a square-headed window 

 of three cinquefoiled lights, c. 1530, which has early 

 fourteenth-century shafts reset in its inner jambs ; 

 below its sill on the outer face of the wall are three 

 quatrefoiled panels inclosing shields with a cross, a 

 rose, and a saltire respectively. Near the north-west 

 angle of the chancel is another thirteenth-century 

 lancet. There is no chancel arch, its place being 

 taken by a fifteenth-century rood-loft, retaining the 

 floor of its gallery, at the level of the plate of the roof, 

 and the coved canopies beneath it on the west side ; 

 into the front beam, on which a modern embattled 

 cresting has been set, two posts were formerly 

 mortised on each side of the central opening, making 

 \ving screens for the nave altars. A good modern 

 screen has been inserted on the line of the old screen 

 under the back beam of the loft. The chancel roof 

 is old, with trussed rafters. The nave has three 

 north windows, c, 1320, each of a single ogee light 

 trefoiled, the eastern of the three being wider than 

 the others and having its sill carried down as a recess 

 in connexion with the north nave altar. The north 

 doorway, between the second and third windows, has 

 a semicircular arch of two orders, the outer continuous, 

 with an alternating zigzag ornament, and the inner 

 having a moulded edge roll and a chamfered string 

 at the springing. Over the doorway is a modern 

 wooden porch. The west end of the nave is taken 

 up by the posts of the wooden belfry, the lower parts 

 of which have been cut off and replaced by stone 

 piers ; the braces and framing are a very good 

 specimen of mediaeval carpentry, and the turret is 

 probably of late fourteenth-century date. The west 

 window of the nave is of three cinquefoiled lights 

 under a square head, and dates from the fifteenth 

 century. 



Of the north wall of the old nave only a short 

 length at the west remains, containing a single round- 

 headed light without any ornamental detail ; its 

 probable date has been noted above. The nave 

 roof, like that of the chancel, is old, with trussed 

 rafters, a simple form used throughout the Middle 

 Ages and later ; its date in this instance can only be 

 guessed at. 



The font, at the west of the nave, has a modern 

 bowl of marble, on an old base of uncertain date. 

 The south aisle is entirely modern, but its west 

 window seems to be old work re-used, of three 

 trefoiled lights with net tracery, c. 1320. 



The church is rich in monuments and heraldry. 

 Under the north-east window of the chancel is a 

 large altar tomb with panelled sides on the south and 

 west, evidently not in its original position. The 

 panels are quatrefoiled, two of those on the south side 

 containing foliage, and the other three shields, one of 

 which is blank. Another bears the arms of White 



differenced with a crescent, impaling on a cheveron 

 between three shackle-bolts three choughs in an en- 

 grailed border charged with roundels, and the third 

 has the latter coat, which is no doubt that of Fen- 

 rother. At the west end of the tomb are the arms 

 of White. The top slab is of Purbeck marble, very 

 roughly worked and too wide for the tomb ; it looks 

 as if it might be an altar slab set upside down. At 

 the head of the tomb on the east wall is a panel with 

 the brass figure of Robert, son of John White, kneel- 

 ing, with the Trinity on a brass plate above him, and 

 to the left a hand among clouds pointing to a scroll 

 inscribed ' Sancta Trinitas unus deus miserere nobis.' 

 An inscription gives the date of his death as ^.th of 

 Henry VIII, recording that he was quondam dominus 

 istius ville. 



On either side of the east window are image 

 brackets, that on the north quite plain, and now 

 carrying a helm with the White crest, the other with 

 an embattled cresting and a band of foliage, with 

 the White arms as on Robert White's tomb ; it is 

 probably of the date of the tomb, and on it is set 

 a later sixteenth-century scutcheon with the same 

 arms. 



Against the wall between the two north windows 

 of the chancel is a large tomb of late Gothic type, 

 with a wide and shallow recess under a four-centred 

 arch with Tudor cresting above it. On this cornice 

 are three octagonal pedestals carrying small figures 

 with shields which are now blank. In the recess 

 are the kneeling figures of Sir Thomas White, 1566, 

 and his wife Agnes, 1570, on either side of a prayer 

 desk, with fourteen sons and six daughters behind 

 them ; the children who died before their parents 

 hold skulls in their hands. Below are three cusped 

 panels inclosing shields with heraldry painted on 

 them, and now much defaced. The eastern shield 

 has a cheveron and three birds, the central shield 

 White impaling a coat which is now unrecognizable, 

 while the third coat is quite destroyed by the fumes 

 of a hideous iron stove which stands in front of the 

 tomb. Above the figures are three panels with an 

 inscription. 



Thomas and Agnes dye unto God and Saye : we hope to see 

 the goodnesse of God in the lande of lyfe : they had issue 

 fourteen sons and six daughters this sayde Sir Thomas Whyte 

 Knight departed thys present lyfc the seconde of November and 

 in the yeare of our Lorde God 1566. Dame Agnes yelded 

 unto God of the workes of hys handes the 4th daye of January 

 in the yeare of our Lorde God 1570. Lorde Jhesu take our 

 soules unto thy mercye. Sur Thomas departed in London and 

 my Lady in Canytebery the daycs and yeares above wryten. 

 God save the Queen. 



Above this monument is a small kneeling figure of 

 Elizabeth Paulet, daughter of Sir Thomas White, 

 and another monument with figures of Richard, son 

 of Sir Thomas White, with his wife Ellen, ob. 1597, 

 and her daughter Anne (Philpott). 



On the south wall of the chancel is a late sixteenth- 

 century monument, undated, with kneeling figures of 

 two brothers, of the White family, but not otherwise 

 identified. Each is in an arched panel, with a black- 

 letter inscription at the back, under a cornice carried 

 on Corinthian columns ; over one figure are the 

 White arms, and over the other the same impaling a 

 cheveron engrailed and three lions' heads. 



In the south aisle are a number of panels of heraldic 

 glass of various dates. In the south-east window 

 is a panel dated 1599, with White impaling a quar- 



