A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



Yorke lives at ' Ramble Cliff,' near to Netley Hospital. 

 ' Ravenswood ' is a large house facing the river, owned 

 by Mr. A. G. Beale, and in School Lane is the house 

 of Sir John Fullerton, late captain of the royal yacht. 

 Other important houses are the manor house, occupied 

 by Colonel Dugmore, J.P., 'The Copse,' occupied by 

 Mr< H. Emmons, and Grantham Cottage, the resi- 

 dence of the Hon. Alexander Yorke. 



There is no mention ofH4MBLE-LE- 

 M4NOR RICE in Domesday, but by the middle 

 of the twelfth century monks from the 

 great Benedictine abbey of Tiron were settled here, 

 having obtained the land from William Giffard, bishop 

 of Winchester (1100-38).' 



Hamble remained a cell of the abbey of Tiron for 

 more than two centuries, during which period the 

 prior probably leased the manor to laymen. 4 



Edward I in 1294 seized most of the alien priories 

 in England owing to the war with France. At that 

 time the possessions of Hamble Priory do not seem to 

 have been considerable, and the total annual value is 

 given at 18 14J. SJ. 1 



The French at this time made an expedition against 

 England, and wrought considerable havoc on the south 

 coast towns of Hampshire.* The possessions of the 

 Hamble monks suffered so severely that exemption 

 from the payment of farm rent was granted them, 

 that they might rebuild and repair. 7 



In 1 391 William of Wykeham, bishop of Winchester, 

 bought Hamble-le-Rice with 

 its appurtenances, for the en- 

 dowment of St. Mary's Col- 

 lege, Winchester, 8 with which 

 it still remains. 



The wardens of the college 

 did not come into full posses- 

 sion until later in 1401, on 

 the death of Sir Bernard 

 Brocas and Tidman the monk, 

 on whom Hamble had been 

 settled for their lives during 



. -, , 111-0 



the French war by the king. 9 



A considerable sum of gulu. 

 money was then spent on 



improvements, and the manor was provided with a 

 new dovecote. 10 



The church of ST. ANDREW has a 

 CHURCH chancel and nave of equal width, 19 ft., 

 and approximately equal length, about 

 43 ft. in each case. The unusual proportion is due 

 to the fact that the chancel was the church of the 

 alien priory of Hamble, while the nave served for 

 that of the parish. There is a modern vestry on the 

 north of the chancel, and a large modern chapel on 

 the south-west, and the nave has a north-west porch 

 and a west tower. At the junction of the nave and 

 chancel are north and south doorways, the latter now 

 opening by a curved passage to the south chapel, and 

 the former blocked ; it seems to have led into a small 

 square porch or turret which had a doorway at the 

 west. Traces of what seems to have been a second 

 instance of this may be seen at Idsworth. The nave 



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and west tower are of twelfth-century date, while the 

 chancel belongs to the thirteenth century, and was 

 probably rebuilt about 1250 round an older and 

 narrower chancel. It has a fine east window of three 

 uncusped lights with cusped circles in the head, two 

 quatrefoiled and one septfoiled ; the rear arch is 

 moulded and has engaged shafts in the jambs. On 

 the north side is a widely-splayed lancet at the east, 

 and a pair of similar windows at the west, with the 

 modern vestry door between them ; to the west of 

 the single lancet is a wide arched recess in the wall 

 rebated for a door. The south wall had a pair of 

 lancets at the east, of which one yet remains perfect, 

 but the other has been partly destroyed in building 

 the new south chapel ; below the remaining lancet 

 is a very fine cinquefoiled piscina recess with two 

 drains, and a single sedile, quite plain except for an 

 edge chamfer ; both are of the date of the chancel. 

 The nave has a single twelfth-century round-headed 

 light at the north-east, and no other window in this 

 wall, but on the south are a pair of wide round- 

 headed lights, splayed like the pair of lancets in the 

 chancel, but with nook-shafts and capitals of late 

 twelfth-century detail, the middle capital being foli- 

 ate. To the west are two more lancets under a single 

 head with a plastered rear arch. The north and 

 south doorways at the east end of the nave are of 

 twelfth-century date, the southern having a plain 

 round head and the other a line of zigzag on its 

 inner order. The turret or porch into which it 

 opened was of the same date, the south jamb of its 

 western doorway, with a foliate capital, still remain- 

 ing on the nave wall. The principal doorway of the 

 nave is at the north-west, close to the west end, 

 under a fifteenth-century porch, and has a segmental 

 arch with a label and zigzag on the outer order, the 

 inner order being plain and slightly pointed, while 

 the outer is round-headed. In the jambs are single 

 nook-shafts with foliate capitals, and the abacus of the 

 east jamb is moulded in late twelfth-century style, 

 while the other is plain and has been recut. There 

 is a recess for holy water inside the nave to the east 

 of the doorway. The north porch is probably of the 

 fifteenth century, with a chamfered outer arch. 



The tower is of three stages, faced with small 

 ashlar stones ; it is probably not later than 1 1 40, and 

 has had plain round-headed belfry windows, into 

 which cinquefoiled fifteenth-century heads have been 

 inserted ; the plain parapet is also of the fifteenth 

 century. In the second stage on the west is a wide 

 round-headed window with zigzag in the arch and 

 nook-shafts with foliate capitals of fairly early style ; 

 its opening has probably been widened. At the base 

 of each of these stages is a string with billet mould- 

 ing. In the ground stage are blocked archways, 4 ft. 

 wide, cut straight through the wall, in the north and 

 south walls ; that on the north has a semicircular 

 head, while the other is segmental ; they may have 

 been made for the purpose of a procession path round 

 the west end of the church, and the existing west 

 boundary of the churchyard supports the idea, if it 

 occupies the ancient line. The arch opening from 



* The original charter is not extant, 

 but from the names of the witnesses to 

 a confirmation of the grant now among 

 the Winchester College muniments, it 

 could not have been later than 1140 ; 

 V.C.H. Hants, ii, 221-6. 



*Arch.\, 251-62. One lease bearing 

 the date 1320 between Prior Beaumont 

 and one John Poussant, of all services 

 and customs at Hamble Manor, ii still 

 preserved at Winchester. 

 V.C.H. Hants, ii, 222,.. 



470 



8 Cat. of Pat. 1377-81, p. 535. 



7 Ibid. 



8 Ibid. 1388-92, p. 433. 



9 Pat. 10 Ric. II, pt. I, m. 37. 



10 V.C.H. Hants, ii, 223,7. 



