MAINSBRIDGE HUNDRED 



BOTLEY 



the middle of the sixteenth century, but no trace of 

 it now exists.* 4 



At the dissolution of the monasteries, Wherwell 

 Abbey held among other lands MATTOCKESFORD 

 in Botley," which was granted with them to Lord 

 De La Warr. In 1579 Mattockesford was in the 

 possession of the marquis of Winchester, 26 and re- 

 mained in his family until 1629," when it was 

 sold by George Paulet to John Forde.* 8 No further 

 record is to be found of the place, but Maddoxford 

 Farm, in the north-east of the parish of Botley, is prob- 

 ably a relic of this so-called manor of Mattockesford. 



Of the old church tfALL SAINTS 

 CHURCHES only the chancel is now left standing. 

 It measures 3 1 ft. by 1 6 ft. 6 in., and is 

 of thirteenth-century date, built of freestone rubble 

 with a red-tiled roof. It has a fifteenth-century east 

 window of three cinquefoiled lights under a square 

 head, and in the north and south walls are three 

 windows, a square-headed two-light window with 

 modern tracery between two small lancets. Between 

 the second and third windows on the south was a 

 small doorway, now blocked, the entrance to the 

 chancel being now from the west, by a doorway 

 made up of twelfth-century fragments, set in a rough 

 blocking wall which takes the place of the chancel arch. 

 The roof retains its old trussed rafters, and on its west 

 end is a small wooden bell-cote containing a single bell. 



The church now in use, in the main street of the 

 village, was built in 1836, and has a shallow chancel 

 added in 1859, with a south vestry, and a wide nave, to 

 which a north aisle was added in 1892, and in 

 18953 west porch of the full width of the nave. The 

 tower at the south-west, of yellow brick, is part of 

 the 1836 work. 



The building is an uninteresting specimen of its 

 time, which has been to some extent gothicized by 

 the later alterations ; the only ancient features which 

 it contains are the font, a monument in the south 

 wall, and the bells. 



The font, which is said to have been dug up on 

 the river bank, is a roughly-shaped round bowl, its 

 base cut back to a hexagonal shape at some later time. 

 Its ornament is equally rough, and though doubtless 

 of twelfth-century date, is probably not quite so early 

 as it looks. A band of cable moulding runs round 

 the top of the bowl, and a band of lozenge ornament 

 lower 'down, the space between being divided into 

 panels by vertical lines of lozenge or cable moulding, 

 in which are round arched arcades in one case of 

 three interlacing arches, and in the others of two 

 arches side by side. The tomb recess in the south 

 wall, c. 1330, has a cinquefoiled arch with a crocketed 

 label, and contains the contemporary effigy of an 

 unknown civilian. He is clean-shaven, with long 

 curled hair, and wears a close-fitting tunic over which 

 is a full-sleeved gown reaching half-way down the leg. 

 His feet rest on a lion. The effigy has been sup- 

 posed to represent John de Botley, but must be some 

 fifty years later than his time. 



There are three bells, all with marks of Woking- 

 ham bell-founders, and probably dating from c. 1420. 

 The treble bears the marks of a groat, a lion's face, and a 

 cross ; the second has the two latter marks, and an 



inscription, ' Sancte Petre of,' while the tenor, with 

 the same marks, has ' Sancta Anna ora pro nobis.' 

 There is also a small clock bell dated 1784. 



The plate comprises a communion cup, paten, 

 flagon, and almsdish of 1772, and modern copies of 

 the cup and paten made in 1871. 



The first book of registers goes from 1679 to 1778, 

 the marriages stopping at 1754 ; the second has 

 marriages 1754-1812, and the third baptisms and 

 burials 1779-1812. 



The church of Botley, with the 



JDrOfVSON manor, belonged to Ralf de Mortimer 



at the time of the Domesday Survey.* 9 



Thomas de Botley, holding the manor at the be- 

 ginning of the fourteenth century, also held with it 

 the advowson, both of which were alienated to the 

 chapel of St. Elizabeth, near Winchester. Until the 

 eighteenth century the advowson shares the same 

 history as the manor, but it was not sold with the 

 manor of Botley by the first duke of Portland, but 

 remained as a possession of successive dukes until 

 1855,*" when it was purchased by Mr. H. Lee. He 

 presented the living in 1 856 to the late Rev. J. Morley 

 Lee, canon of Winchester, who also inherited the 

 patronage a little later." It is a rectory now in the 

 gift of, and since 1 903 has been held by, the Rev. E. 

 C. Osborne, M.A. 



In 1 842 Elizabeth Penford by will 

 CHARITIES bequeathed 500 consols, one moiety 

 for certain poor of the parish and 

 one moiety for Curdridge (see Bishop's Waltham com- 

 bined charities). The sum of 2 50 consols belonging 

 to this parish is held by the official trustees. The 

 dividends, amounting to 6 5/., were in 1 90 5 applied 

 in gifts of i os. loJ. to each of six recipients. 



In 1890 Mrs. Sophia Kidgell Warner by will left 

 60 2 lot. per cent, annuities for keeping in 

 order the churchyard of the old parish church. 



In 1904 Mrs. Elizabeth Warner by her will left 

 100 consols, the dividends to be added to the church 

 repair fund. The two sums of stock are held by the 

 official trustees. 



The Market Hall and yard were acquired by deeds 

 of 29 September, 1858, and 25 August, 1884. In 

 1905 the income derived from rent of the hall, hire 

 of tables, &c., amounted to 40, of which 20 was 

 expended in insurance, repairs, &c., and superinten- 

 dent's salary, and the yearly balance had accumulated 

 to 161. 



In 1887, by deed dated 31 December of that year, 

 and made between Henry Jenkins of the one part 

 and James Clark and Alfred Pern of the other part, 

 4 acres of land were conveyed for the purposes of a 

 recreation ground. By an order of the Charity Com- 

 missioners dated 27 September, 1898, the parish 

 council of Botley were appointed trustees, and a 

 scheme established for its administration. 



For Sir Henry Jenkins's memorial scholarship, see 

 Curdridge in Bishop's Waltham. 



Parish of Hedge End. 



The poor's allotment consists of 2 acres, producing 

 $ lot. a year, which subject to a rent-charge of 

 2 is applied in the repair of the fences, &c. There 

 are also 3 acres used as a recreation ground. 



a< Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 57, No. 96. 



KV.C.H. Hantt, i, 1374. 



Pat. 21 Eliz. pt. 7. 



W Chan. Inq. p.m. 42 Eliz. (Ser. 2), 



vol. 262, No. 115 ; Feet of F. Hants, 

 East. 43 Eliz. ; W. and L. Inq. p.m. 

 20 Jas. I (Ser. 2), bdle. 35, No. 90. 

 28 Feet of F. Hants, Hil. 4 Cha. I. 



4 6 7 



V.C.H. Hants, i, 4900. 



80 Inst. Bks. P.R.O. 



81 Information supplied by Rev. J. 

 Morley Lee. 



