BUDDLESGATE HUNDRED 



CHILBOLTON 



and over it is built a porch of plastered masonry 

 dating from 1 867. To the west of it is a single 

 trefoiled light, as in the north aisle. The west win- 

 dow of the nave is of three cinquefoiled lights, with 

 tracery of fifteenth-century style, and was, till 1893, 

 the east window of the chancel. 



The lower stage of the tower is of masonry, and of 

 comparatively recent date, the upper stage and spire 

 being of wooden construction. The roof of the nave 

 is modern except for the tie-beams, and the aisle roofs 

 are modern (i 893), while that of the chancel is hidden 

 by plaster. 



The fifteenth-century stair to the rood-loft remains 

 at the north-east angle of the nave, and at the west of 

 the chancel is an oak screen with a central doorway, 

 and six openings on either side with pierced tracery in 

 the heads, the lower panels being solid. It is much 

 patched, but in part of fifteenth-century date, and 

 against its eastern face on either side of the central 

 opening are set three seats with linen-panelled fronts 

 of a late type, probably of the second quarter of the 

 sixteenth century. The pulpit, a good specimen of 

 early seventeenth-century work, is a half-hexagon with 

 tall moulded and carved panels, and guilloche orna- 

 ment on the styles. It has a projecting bookboard, 

 carried by scrolled brackets, and stands on a modern 

 linen-panelled base. At the south-east of the chancel 

 is a plain arched piscina recess, with a stone shelf, 

 probably coeval with the wall in which it is set, and 

 the altar table is a good example of early seventeenth- 

 century work, with carved ornament. At the east 

 ends of both aisles are piscinae, that in the north aisle 

 with a trefoiled head, and the other with an uncusped 

 ogee head ; both are probably contemporary with the 

 aisles. 



The font, near the south door, is modern, octagonal 

 with carved panels, and none of the fittings of the 

 church, beyond those already mentioned, are ancient. 



There are three bells, the treble having an inscrip- 

 tion common enough in itself, but notable for the 

 badness of its lettering and spelling. 



I am the forst and thof hot smal 

 It wil be herd abofe you al. 1641. 



On the waist are the initials T.H. T.H. The second 

 bell, cast in 1890 by Taylor, retains its former inscrip- 

 tion : ' Rejoice in God, I. D. 1630,' the initials being 

 those of John Dunton of Salisbury. The tenor, of 

 about the same date, bears only ' Feare God." 



The church plate includes a good Elizabethan cup, 

 with cover paten, undated ; a very fine two-handled 

 secular cup or posset-pot of 1659, anc ^ a plated alms 

 dish. 



The only monument in the church that has any 



interest is a seventeenth-century brass close by the 

 pulpit on the north wall of the chancel, to the memory 

 of Thomas Tutt, 15 the date of whose death is not 

 filled in. 



The earliest parish register begins with mixed 

 entries in 1699, and continues until 1772, with a few 

 stray entries to 1776. Inductions to the rectory and 

 names of the rectors at a later date are inscribed in 

 this book, and among them are Dr. Alured Clarke, 

 dean of Exeter, prebendary of Westminster and 

 Winchester, and rector of Chilbolton ; Dr. Thomas 

 Cheyney, dean of Winchester, inducted 1748 ; Dr. 

 Jonathan Shipley, dean of Winchester, inducted 1760 ; 

 and Matthew Woodford, prebendary of Winchester, 

 inducted 1789. Evidently the living was a sinecure for 

 the deans and prebendaries of the eighteenth century, 

 giving them good fishing in the Test, and good hunt- 

 ing on the Downs. The second book is also a mixed 

 register from 1722 to 1769. The third book g ves bap- 

 tisms and burials from 1774 to 1813. These fill up 

 about one-third of the book, and the rest of it is practi- 

 cally a journal of 'remarkable occurrences under Crosbie 

 Morgill, collated to the rectory in 1830.' He tells 

 how the parish clerk was suspended for liquor, how 

 the machinery riots of 1830 told on the nerves of the 

 parishioners, how the cholera visited the neighbouring 

 villages in 1832, and how influenza began as a ' national 

 judgment' in 1837. The marriages from 1784 to 

 1812 are given in a separate book. 



The advowson of Chilbolton, with 

 ADVQWSON sole jurisdiction over the church, 16 

 has belonged to the bishops of Win- 

 chester probably from the time when Chilbolton itself 

 was granted to the church at Winchester by King 

 Athelstan." The church existed at the time of 

 Domesday, 18 was taxed at 23 6/. %d. in 1290," and 

 at 30 at the time of the Dissolution. 10 



William of Wykeham changed the feast of the dedi- 

 cation of the church of Chilbolton from 2 3 August to 

 4 October, because at the former date the parishioners 

 were so busy harvesting that they were unable to keep 

 the festival." 



In 1710 the Rev. Charles Lay- 

 CH4RITIES field, D.D., by will gave one-fourth 

 part of his estate to the poor of 

 Winchester, Chilbolton, Wrotham in Kent, Croston, 

 Lancashire, and Tewin, Hertfordshire. As the result of 

 proceedings in the Court of Chancery in 1751, the 

 trust fund was apportioned in regard to population, and 

 one-eighth part assigned to this parish, now repre- 

 sented by ^273 9/. zd. consols, and applied for the 

 benefit of the poor. 



In 1 844 a building and site was conveyed in trust 

 for a National school. 



15 Edmund Tutt farmed the manor of 

 Chilbolton in i6zz. He may have been 

 some relative of Thomas. 



" Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 507. 



W See Manor.' V.C.H. Hants, i. 



"Pofe Nich. Tax. (Rec. Com.), zio*. 



M Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 1 6. 

 u Wyktham'i Reg. (Hants Rec. Soc.), 

 ii, 369. 



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