A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



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Thomas Fleming, the king's solicitor-general, son of 

 his aunt Jane, wife of William Fleming. 18 He and 

 his son Thomas sold the estate in 1603 to John More, 

 serjeant-at-law, 19 whose heir John died seised in 

 1622,'" leaving no children, and on the partition of 

 his property between his sisters, Dowsabella wife of 

 Samuel Dunch, and Anne wife of Edward Hooper, 

 Baddesley fell to the share of 

 the former." 



Samuel was succeeded by 

 his son John Dunch, who 

 died in 1668, and by his 

 grandson Major Dunch, suc- 

 cessively. On the death of 

 the latter in 1679, his son 

 Wharton inherited Baddesley, 

 and he, dying without issue 

 in 1705, left the estate to his 

 sister Jane, wife of Francis 

 Keck." By the will of the 

 latter, North Baddesley Manor 

 passed to Anthony Chute, 13 and his brother and heir 

 John Chute, of the Vine, sold it to Thomas Dummer, 

 of Cranbury, in 1767, for 5,500." 



His extensive property in Hampshire was left by 

 his will, in 1781, to Mr. Thomas Chamberlayne, 

 who subsequently married Mr. Dummer's widow. 

 On the death of her third husband, Sir Nathaniel 

 Dance-Holland, in 1811, the estates passed to the 

 Chamberlayne family," and they are now held by 

 Mr. Tankerville Chamberlayne of Cranbury Park, 

 Winchester, who is lord of the manor." 



The church of S2". JOHN THE 

 CHURCH BAPTIST has a chancel and nave of 

 equal width, 15 ft. 9 in., the chancel 

 being 19 ft. 10 in. long to the screen, and the nave 

 33 ft. 2 in. ; at the west of the nave is a small tower, 

 5 ft. 10 in. by 5 ft. 2 in. within the walls, and over 

 the south doorway of the nave is a porch. 



The chancel has been rebuilt at some time in the 

 fifteenth century, and made of the same width as the 

 nave, the junctions with the older masonry being 

 clearly to be seen. The chancel walls are built with 

 good-sized pieces of Bonchurch or some kindred stone, 

 and have a chamfered plinth at the base, which is 

 wanting in the nave. There are no architectural 

 details in the nave earlier than the latter part of 

 the fourteenth century, but the north and south walls 

 may well be older than that time, and it is to be 

 noted that in the porch floor, near the north-east 

 angle, is part of an octagonal shaft of twelfth-century 

 date ornamented with zigzag, perhaps a relic of the 

 former church. Its present position, nearly buried 

 in the floor, may be due to its re-use as the pedestal 

 of a holy-water stone here. The west wall of the 

 nave and the west tower were rebuilt in 1674, as 

 appears from a stone panel in the south wall of the 

 latter bearing this date, with the initials of Major 

 Dunch and the arms of Dunch impaling More. 



The chancel has a fifteenth-century east window of 

 three cinquefoiled lights, and on the north and south 

 single square-headed windows of the same date, each 



of two cinquefoiled lights with a quatrefoil over 

 between pierced spandrels. To the east of the south 

 window is a blocked four-centred doorway, and 

 there are no sedilia or piscina. The roof is of 

 wagon form with moulded ribs and shields at their 

 intersections. 



The nave has two windows on the north, the eastern 

 of the two being a modern copy of the other. This is 

 of late fourteenth-century date, and has a square head, 

 with two trefoiled lights and a quatrefoil over. In 

 the south wall are two windows, the eastern of which 

 is a very charming specimen of late fourteenth-century 

 work, of two cinquefoiled lights with a six-foiled 

 opening in the arched head, and an external label with 

 angels at the springing. The other window, west of 

 the doorway, is of two lights under a square head, 

 and set high in the wall to light the west gallery, and 

 of seventeenth or eighteenth-century date. The 

 doorway is plain work, probably of the fifteenth 

 century, of two continuous hollow chamfered orders 

 with a four-centred head. The porch may be con- 

 temporary with it, and has low stone walls on east and 

 west carrying a timber framework with uncusped 

 ogee-headed openings, now boarded up. Its south 

 gable is filled in with brickwork. The nave roof, 

 though of the same width as that of the chancel, is 

 slightly the higher of the two ; its timbers are 

 modern. 



The west tower, the top of which is but little above 

 the ridge of the nave roof, is of red brick with an 

 embattled parapet and narrow slits in the upper stage, 

 and was built in 1674. Below, a modern west win- 

 dow of fifteenth-century style has been inserted, and 

 above it is a panel with the initials of the church- 

 wardens for 1674, Simon Tredgoand Thomas Comp- 

 ton. The eastern arch is tall, narrow, and round- 

 headed, and access to the bells is by a ladder only. 



The screen between chancel and nave is inscribed 

 'TF 1602,' for Sir Thomas Fleming, and is a very 

 pretty piece of work of the date, panelled below, and 

 with an open balustrade above, carrying a carved and 

 moulded top rail. The head of the central doorway 

 is framed in between the posts, some 2 ft. below the 

 top rail, and the space between is filled with small 

 balusters. Local tradition has it that this screen came 

 from North Stoneham, and Sir Thomas Fleming's 

 initials would not be against the theory. The width 

 of nave and chancel at North Stoneham is 7 in. less than 

 that at Baddesley, but there is some new work at the 

 ends of the screen, and the width of the old work is 

 almost exactly 15 ft. 2 in., which would fit the 

 Stoneham position. The pulpit is also of early 

 seventeenth - century date, with inlaid panels and 

 octagonal tester ; an hour-glass stand was formerly 

 fastened to it. The west gallery has an eighteenth- 

 century panelled font, and in the chancel on the north 

 side is a shelf to which a Bible of the 161 1 edition is 

 fastened by a chain. 



Against the north wall of the chancel is set a raised 

 tomb with panelled sides and a Purbeck marble top 

 slab. It is clearly not in its original condition. The 

 slab, 6 ft. 5^ in. long, is complete, but the panelled 



18 Feet of F. Hants, Trin. 43 Eliz. He 

 did not gain possession through the death 

 of Barrow, for he was living in 1605 ; see 

 Recov. R. Hil. 3 Jas. I, rot. 102. 



80 W. and L. Inq. p.m. 19 Jas. I (Ser. i), 

 bdlc. 33, No. 87. 



81 Ibid. 



43 Somcrs. Ho. 14, Abbot. 



34 Close, 7 Geo. Ill, pt 13, No. 6. 



45 John Marsh, Mem of Parishes of 



M John Marsh, Mem. of Parishes of Hursfey and North Baddesley, 1808. 



19 Add. MS. 3328, fol. 185* ; Feet of Hursley and North Baddesley, 1808 ; Feet 



F. Hants, East. 1 Jas. I. 



of F. Div. Cos. Trin. 5 Anne. 

 464 



26 Information supplied by Mr. T. 

 Chamberlayne. 



