BUDDLESGATE HUNDRED 



NURSLING 



teenth-century window-head, found daring the palling 

 down of the north wall of the chancel at that timf t a 

 piesened in the porch. The chancel probably re- 

 tains its thirteenth-century plan, and has on the 

 oath tide a plain pointed arch with a string of thir- 

 teenth-centory section in its west respond, that in the 

 east respond being cat away. The east window, of 

 two trefoiled lights with a quatrcfoil in the head, has 

 tracery of early fourteen th-centory style : in the north 

 wall is a window of two trefoiled lights with a trefoil 

 over, the head of which is fourteenth-century work 

 reset, and in the sooth wall, to the east of the arch 

 already mentioned, is a single trefoiled fourteenth-cen- 

 tury light. Under this window is a wide segmental 

 arch serving as the ffHilifl > the panelling at th^ back 

 of it being of Street's design, and in the north wall is 

 a credence of the same date (1881). The chancel 

 arch is sharply pointed, of two chamfered orders, the 

 inner springing from moulded half-octagonal corbels of 

 early fourteenth-century section ; on either side of the 

 arch on its west face, some 4 ft. above the springing, are 

 hooked corbels for the rood beam. The south chapel 

 is light**! on the sooth by a square-headed fifteen th- 

 centory window of three cinqaefoiled lights, and 

 open* to the nave by an arch formerly at the east 

 end of the sooth aisle, bat now divided by the south 

 wall of the nave, its southern half being blocked in 

 the masonry. The plan and probably part of the 

 waning of the chapel may be of thirteenth-century 

 date, like the chancel. The nare is of unusual pro- 

 portions, being more than twice as wide as the chan- 

 cel, and appears to be entirely of the fourteenth century. 

 Before its building, which involved the destruction of 

 the sooth aisle, there most hare been a sooth arcade 

 on the same line a* the sooth wall of the chancel, 

 dating from the thirteenth century or possibly earlier. 

 It probably stood on the line of the south wall of an 

 earlier aisicfcss nave of small size, the chancel of which 

 had been bnilt round and destroyed when its thirteenth- 

 century successor was set out. If, as must be assumed, 

 the nave was on the same axis as the present chancel, 

 its width could hardly have been greater than 

 lift. 6 in., and its widening would very naturally 

 suggest itself to later builders. To avoid throwing it 

 oat of centre with the chancel, it would be necessary 

 to poD down the sooth arcade, and to encroach on the 

 area of the sooth aisle, and this is what actually hap- 

 pened, the width thus obtained being sufficient without 

 the addition of aisles. The sooth wall of the thir- 

 teenth-century atsk was therefore palled down, and 

 the southern half of its eastern arch blocked up as it 

 now appears. Traces of the bonding of the destroyed 

 waO are to be seen not only in the west wall of the 

 sooth chapel, bat in the east wall of the sooth porch, 

 and in the latter case can only be explained by sup- 

 posing that the wall in question incorporates the west 

 waD of the destroyed aisle, probably giving thereby 

 the fine of that of the early nave, whose dimensions 

 would be about 306. by I z ft. 6 in. a very usual size. 

 The nave has two north windows, each of two trefoiled 

 lights and fourteenth-century date, bat die eastern of 



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the two has geometrical tracery of an earlier kind than 

 the flowing tracery of the other window. In the 

 south wall are two windows identical with those in 

 the north, except that the geometrical window is the 

 western of the two. In the west wall is a fourteenth- 

 century window with three lights and net tracery, hav- 

 ing below it a contemporary doorway of two chamfered 

 orders. Of the tower only the lower part is in stone, 

 the upper stage being of wood, with a shingled wooden 

 spire ; its inner and outer doors are of plain fourteenth- 

 century style, and the whole is doubtless of this date, 

 except so much of the east wall as may hare belonged 

 to the thirteenth-century aisle. The walls are plas- 

 tered externally, and the roofs red tiled ; the timbers 

 of the nare roof are probably mediaeval, and a beam with 

 the date 1675 orer ^ e *nth doorway may refer to re- 

 pain done at that time. To the east of the south 

 doorway is a holy-water niche, and the font, which is 

 modern, stands near by, baring an octagonal bowl on 

 marble shafts. There are a few old floor tiles in the 

 church of common type, and on the east gable of the 

 nare is an old gable cross. In the south chapel, at 

 the south-west corner, is the large monument of 

 Richard Mill, 1613, with effigies of himself and his 

 wife, the latter on a lower level, beneath a tall canopy 

 with heraldry and pierced strap-work, the scrolls on 

 either side of the central cresting ending in lions' 

 heads, as on the contemporary Uredale tomb at 

 Wickham. There is also a curious mural monument 

 to Andrew Mnndy, 1632, a brass plate engraved with 

 liVgiiiii il devices, a sun and sphere, a skull, a book, 

 stars and clouds, and on a lozenge a chronogram : 



LeX aeteral LVX MVnDI = (632. 



The brass plate is set in a stone frame inscribed with 

 a second chronogram : 



Vt Cererl fVaVi aC phoenlCI CInl. 

 Voper apoLLInl ilC Mftl OoJ = 1632. 



There are three bells of 1769 by Wells of Aid- 

 bourne. 



The plate consists of a silver cup, paten, and flagon 

 of 1 727, repaired in 1 879. 



The first book of the registers begins in 1617 and 

 runs to 1735, and the second from 1736 to 1797. 

 The third is the marriage register 1754-1812, and 

 the fourth the baptisms and burials 1797-1812. 



There was a church in Nursling at 

 ADFOWSQW the time of the Domesday Surrey." 

 The living has always been in the 

 hands of the bishop of Winchester,* 7 and is at the present 

 time a rectory, net yearly value 325 with 10 acres of 

 glebe and residence. 



In 1880 Mrs. Jane Collett Langley 

 CHARITIES by her will left 100, the income to 

 be applied for the benefit of such nine 

 poor widows, or other persons, as the incumbent should 

 select. The legacy was invested in the purchase of 

 104 3/. 3< consols, and the income it applied in 

 accordance with the trusts. 



Jbg. (Htott tec. Sac.), j, 134, 17$ ; but. Bk*. P.R.O. 



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