BUDDLESGATE HUNDRED 



WEEKE 



in the years noted above, and at the four corners of 

 the slab are shields with the arms of Hampton and 

 Dodington. 



The sides of the tomb are panelled, with shields in 

 the panels, bearing on the north side (i) a cheveron 

 between three owls (Frost) ; (2) Wallop quartering 

 paly wavy a chief with a saltire ; (3) Hampton impal- 

 ing Dodington ; (4) Hampton. On the west are 



(1) on a bend cotised three walnut leaves (Waller) ; 



(2) a fesse between three fleurs-de-lis (Whitehead) ; and 

 on the south are two blank shields and two panels 

 without shields. The arms other than those of 

 Hampton and Dodington refer to the marriages of 

 Thomas Hampton's daughters. On the wall east of 

 the tomb is a projecting iron, probably to carry a 

 helm. 



In the east arch of the north arcade of the nave is 

 a second altar tomb, all of Purbeck marble, with 

 panelled sides of late fifteenth or early sixteenth- 

 century character, inclosing quatrefoils. On the south 

 side the two eastern panels are blank, probably be- 

 cause this part of the tomb adjoined the north nave 

 altar. There is nothing to show to whom it belongs. 

 Against it on the north a second tomb has been built 

 at a lower level, with a Purbeck marble slab, and sides 

 made of chalk blocks ; it also has no arms or inscrip- 

 tion. 



Against the north wall of the Hampton chapel is 

 the tomb of John Waller, 1525, with a recessed 

 canopy on which are the arms of Waller and Hamp- 

 ton, and a base with paintings of St. Thomas of 

 Canterbury and our Lady and Child. In front of 

 this tomb on the floor is the gravestone of his grand- 

 son Richard Waller, 1552, and at the north-west of 

 the chapel is the raised tomb of Sir Thomas Phelipps, 

 1626. At the west end of the north aisle is the 

 monument of Sir James Phelipps, 1652, and of his 

 mother Charity, wife first of Sir Thomas Phelipps and 

 then of Sir William Ogle, 1645. 



In a recess at the south-east of the nave is an altar 

 tomb with a slab having indents for four shields, only 

 one of which is preserved. It bears the arms of 

 Waite, argent a cheveron gules and three bugle horns 



sable impaling Skilling, argent two cheverons gules 

 and in chief gules three bezants. 



In the churchyard is the tomb of the Rev. Joshua 

 Reynolds, 1734, uncle and godfather of the painter. 



There are three bells, the tenor of 1 606, by a 

 founder R.B. and inscribed ' God be our Gvyd ' ; the 

 second a fifteenth-century Wokingham bell, with the 

 marks of the cross, lion's face, and groat, and the 

 inscription ' Sancta Trini Tas (sic) ora pro nobis ' ; and 

 the treble, also mediaeval, probably by John Sanders, 

 bears the arms of St. Swithun's Priory, Winchester, 

 and ' Sancta Catarina ora pro nobis.' 



The church plate consists of a silver chalice dated 

 1568 with a cover used as a paten and two almsdishes, 

 one of pewter, the other of brass. 



The early parish register is the original paper book 

 of mixed entries, dating from I54O. 34 This, at least, 

 is the first distinct entry, though there is a fragment 

 of a first page preserved which if intact would proba- 

 bly take the register back to 1538. In 1595 there is 

 an entry that Thomas Gillson of Olde Stoke Charity 

 did ' reade the articles of religion at morninge prayer 

 after sermon made at morninge prayer the 2O th day of 

 July in the church of Old Sook before the congregation.' 

 Another entry states that John Clarke ' having before 

 wandered here and there in povertye and extremitye 

 wasfounde dead in Stoke fielde the 2O th day of March, 

 1596, in which day beinge before viewed by the in- 

 habitants of the same parish he was in the churchyarde 

 buried.' The entries continue until 1812. 



The early churchwardens' accounts, now in the 

 possession of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, are 

 complete from 154910 1728, with entries for 1541-3 ; 

 the oldest poor book dates from 1753 to 1837. 



At the time of the Domesday Survey 

 ADVQWSQN a certain Mauger held the church of 

 the manor. 34 However, by the four- 

 teenth century, and probably before, the advowson was 

 attached to the lordship of the manor and was held 

 by Alice de Windsor in I33O. 36 From this time it 

 followed the descent of the manor 37 (q.v.) until the 

 end of the seventeenth century. It is now a rectory 

 in the gift of the dean and chapter of Winchester. 



WEEKE (OR WYKE) 



Weeke was formerly one parish containing about 

 1,093 acres, but under the Local Government Act of 

 1894* it was divided into two civil parishes, Weeke 

 Within comprising about 90 acres and Weeke Without 

 containing about 1,004 acres >' tne former being in- 

 cluded within the boundaries of the city of Winchester. 

 The growth of the city to the north-west during the 

 last twenty years has changed Weeke Within from 

 field and arable land to a thickly populated district, 

 since newly-built cottages and villas extend almost to 

 the boundaries of Weeke Without. The Winchester 

 station of the London and South Western Railway is 

 in Weeke Within, and close to the station is the 

 church of St. Paul's, formerly a chapel of ease to Weeke 

 Without. 



The upper Stockbridge road comes straight out of 



84 An excellent transcript was made of 

 this register by one of the late rectors of 

 Stoke Charity. 



the city through Weeke Within, and rises steadily to a 

 height of 282 ft. before descending between high 

 banks into the little village of Weeke Without. On 

 the right a short line of pollard limes stands before 

 plain-fronted houses ; on the same side behind a low 

 brick wall almost hidden by trees is the little church 

 of St. Matthew or St. Mary the Virgin, a pathway of 

 tombstones leading up to the church porch. Beyond 

 the church are two or three low thatched cottages and 

 the village pond, and beyond are farm buildings and 

 Weeke Farm itself. Almost opposite the church is 

 the manor- house, the residence of Col. Thomas Burnett 

 Hitchcock, J.P., standing among well-grown trees which 

 line the garden wall as it runs along the village street. 

 Fine stretches of down country away to the south 

 and west, Weeke Down and Teg Down, the property 



. Hants, 1,461*. 

 86 Pat. 5 Edw. Ill, m. 15 

 *> Ifykiham'i Reg. (Hants Rec. Soc.) i, 



451 



40, 102 ; Egerton MS. 2033, fol. 

 2034, fols. 40, 142, 154, 172. 



1 Stat. 56 & 57 Viet. cap. 73. 



"Ord. Surv. 



