A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



EDINGTON. Or a crosi 

 engrailed gules -with ji-vt 

 cinquejbils or thereon. 



possession until his death," on which account it was 



in after times called the manor of Houghton Edington 



or Edingtons. After his death 



it seems to have passed to Sir 



Thomas Hungerford/ 6 and 



from him to Sir Aumary de 



St. Amand and Eleanor his 



wife, with whom it remained 



for a considerable period, Sir 



Aumary at length conveying 



it to Robert Shotesbroke in 



1401." It was sold to John 



Roger of Bryanston (co. Dorset) 



together with half the manor 



of Denecourt in 1423," and 



from this time has followed the 



same descent as the first-named manor of North 



Houghton (q.v.). 



The church of ALL S4INTS has a 

 CHURCH chancel 27 ft. 3 in. by 14 ft. 2 in., with 

 a modern south vestry and a nave 

 38 ft. 6 in. by 1 4 ft. 9 in., with north aisle I oft. 4 in. 

 wide, south aisle 7 ft. 3 in. wide, modern south porch, 

 and wooden bell-turret over the west end. 



Some pieces of twelfth-century detail, belonging to 

 the first half of the century, and including the head of 

 a small window, are built into the east wall of the 

 south aisle, and there is other evidence that a church 

 was on this site at the time. It was probably a small 

 building with aisleless nave and chancel, the nave 

 being of the same width as at present but shorter, and 

 the chancel smaller in both dimensions than that which 

 now stands. The first enlargement seems to have been 

 the addition of a north chapel to the nave, and about 

 1 200 a south aisle of three bays was built, the nave 

 being probably lengthened at this time. Towards 

 the end of the thirteenth century the north chapel 

 was carried westward to the same length as the south 

 aisle, and in the second quarter of the fourteenth cen- 

 tury the chancel was rebuilt. The wooden bell- 

 turret is probably of the fifteenth century, but the 

 upper part and spire date from 1890. In 1875 the 

 chancel was restored and the present east window set 

 up in place of one with wooden frame and mullions. 

 The nave was repaired in 1882, and the chancel arch 

 rebuilt. The walls are of flint rubble with stone 

 dressings, mostly covered with plaster, and the roofs 

 are red-tiled. 



The chancel has a modern east window of three 

 lights, two two-light windows on the north, and two 

 on the south, with a plain priest's door between them. 

 With the exception of the south-west window all the 

 stonework of the windows is modern, of fourteenth- 

 century style. In the south-west window, which 

 dates from c. 1330, it is old except the central mul- 

 lion and the springing of the tracery above it. Below 

 this window a piece of fifteenth-century canopy work 

 is built into the outer face of the wall, upside down. 

 At the south-east of the chancel is a pretty trefoiled 

 piscina with a moulded label, and against the east wall 

 the remains of a fine reredos, a good deal re-tooled, but 

 evidently of fourteenth-century date. A band of 



quatrefoils runs across it and on either side of the altar 

 are half-octagonal pedestals for image-niches ; the whole 

 has evidently been painted, and traces of colour are yet 

 to be seen. 



The chancel arch is of two chamfered orders, rising 

 from plain square jambs which are broader than it, 

 and probably form part of the wall of the older church. 

 The quoins, however, are not of twelfth-century type, 

 and may belong to the widening of the arch when the 

 chancel was rebuilt ; the arch itself has been rebuilt 

 in modern times with old material. 



On the north side of the nave are two arches, 

 separated by a 6 ft. length of walling. The eastern 

 arch is of irregular shape, stilted and round-headed, of 

 two edge-chamfered orders ; the responds are square, 

 and that at the west has a twelfth-century chamfered 

 string at the springing, a modern copy of which is in 

 the east respond. The arch has evidently been altered, 

 but may have been of the twelfth century in the first 

 instance, opening to a north chapel. The western 

 arch is pointed, of two chamfered orders, with a string 

 of late thirteenth-century section at the springing, and 

 has to the east of it on the north side a trefoiled 

 piscina, marking the site of a former altar about mid- 

 way in the present aisle. At the south-west of the 

 aisle is a second piscina, square-headed, and a wide 

 squint towards the chancel. The aisle is lighted by 

 square-headed windows of two wide trefoiled lights, 

 one at the east and two on the north, while the west 

 window is of the same type but narrower, and near 

 the north-west angle is a plain round-headed north 

 doorway of uncertain date. 



The south arcade of the nave, of three bays, has 

 circular columns with plain capitals and bases moulded 

 with two rolls ; the abaci are square edged and cham- 

 fered beneath, and the arches are pointed, of two edge- 

 chamfered orders, all the stonework having diagonal 

 tooling. The east window of the aisle is of two lights 

 and the south window of three, both being modern, 

 and in the west wall is a small square-headed window 

 of two trefoiled lights. The south doorway is prob- 

 ably In situ, though reworked, the width of the aisle, 

 7 ft. 3 in., being a likely one for the date ; the door- 

 way has a semicircular arch of one order with a sunk 

 quarter-round moulding and a double chamfered label. 

 Here and in the north aisle, there is a squint to the 

 chancel, the southern narrower than the other. There 

 is no clearstory, and the west window of the nave is of 

 three cinquefoiled lights in modern stonework of 

 fifteenth-century style. The south porch is entirely 

 refaced, but contains some old masonry, and its moulded 

 wall plates are of fifteenth-century date. 



All the roofs of the church, except that of the north 

 aisle, are old, the chancel having trussed rafters and a 

 single moulded and cambered tie-beam, while in the 

 nave the tie-beams are left in the rough, and have 

 king posts with struts to the pole plate. At the west 

 end are the heavy posts carrying the western bell- 

 turret, with braces to the upper beams. Externally 

 the turret and spire are covered with oak shingles, and 

 have in the belfry stage modern two-light openings of 

 fifteenth-century style. 



7* Feud. Aids, ii, 324 ; De Banco R. 

 No. 554, m. 441. 



7* The only evidence of Sir Thomas 

 Hungerford's tenure of the manor is a De 

 Banco Roll of 1399, whereby Sir Aumary 

 sued Joan, widow of Sir Thomas Hunger- 

 ford, for unlawfully detaining charters and 



title-deeds of the manor. One of the 

 documents in question was a deed where- 

 by Thomas Hungerford and others put in 

 their place Thomas Vautort to take seisin 

 in their name of the manor (De Banco R. 

 No. 554, m. 441). 



4 l6 



77 Vide Pat. 10 Hen. VI, pt. i, 

 m. I. 



7 8 Close, i Hen. VI, m. 21 d. In this 

 document it is described as lately in the 

 tenure of Eleanor, who was the wife of 

 Sir Aumary de St. Amand. 



