A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



west bay is a small door which led to a latrine. 

 Mr. Krakspear suggests that the room may be the in- 

 firmary of the novices, the recesses being for beds, 

 and in this case the use of the pent-roofed building to 

 the west as a kitchen seems probable. There is a 

 cupboard recess in the north wall of the west bay, and 

 in the west wall traces of a second doorway, blocked 

 and apparently of two dates. In the sixteenth century 

 the west wall of the dorter and the south wall of the 

 rere dorter were prolonged, making a two-story block 

 on the site of the kitchen, and traces of other foun- 

 dations running south and west from their junction 

 are yet to be seen. 



In the southern range of claustral buildings were 

 the warming-house, frater, and kitchen, all pulled 

 down in the sixteenth century, except their north 

 wall and part of the west wall of the kitchen. At the 

 east end, between the warming-house and the dorter, 

 was the day stair to the dorter, the arch by which it 

 was reached from the cloister still remaining, with a 

 sixteenth-century arch below it ; the upper door- 

 way into the dorter also exists, but the stairs are 

 entirely destroyed. The warming-house was vaulted 

 in two bays, being entered from the north-east, and 

 having a locker in its north wall ; the fireplace was 

 probably at the west. Above it was a room lighted 

 by a square-headed window from the cloister side, of 

 which nothing more can be said. Between the 

 warming-house door and the frater door was the 

 lavatory, with four vaulted compartments under a 

 wide relieving arch ; at its east end is a sixteenth- 

 century arched recess partly overlapping it. The east 

 jamb of the frater door still exists, but the rest of it 

 has been destroyed by a wide four-centred sixteenth- 

 century doorway, the gatehouse having been made 

 here after the destruction of the frater. Part of an 

 original cupboard recess remains to the west of the 

 doorway on the south face of the wall, and above the 

 doorway a few stones of the north window of the 

 frater, though there is no trace of a gable towards the 

 cloister, as at Beaulieu. The frater was 20 ft. wide, 

 and according to excavations made some time since, 

 about 1 34 ft. long. The north and west walls of the 

 kitchen still stand, showing that there was a room 

 over the kitchen with three small north windows, the 

 walls of this room having been heightened. On the 

 site of the kitchen is the present caretaker's house. 

 The south wall of this range of buildings is of six- 

 teenth-century brickwork, and has had a projecting 

 central gateway flanked by octagonal turrets, and 

 similar turrets at either end of the range ; the south 

 ends of the east and west ranges of the claustral build- 

 ings were left standing to form two sides of a fore- 

 court, while the cloister made the inner or principal 

 court of the house. On the west side of the cloister 

 the monastic buildings were of no great importance, 

 and for two-thirds of the length from the south wall 

 of the church there was nothing but the boundary 

 wall of the cloister, with a pentise to the south-west 

 doorway of the church running along its west side. 

 Near the south-west angle was an entry of fourteenth- 

 century date, against which the pentise returned, and 

 running southwards from it a contemporary building 

 of the same width, of which only the lower story 

 with a few single lights is preserved. It seems to 

 occupy the site of a thirteenth-century building, 



probably the lay brothers' frater, and its small size and 

 probable use as a storehouse witness to the gradual 

 extinction of this section of the community, which in 

 the twelfth century had been one of the great sources 

 of strength to the Cistercians. A doorway opens to 

 the storehouse from the cloister, its jambs being fif- 

 teenth-century insertions, and the door to the entry 

 is of late date set within older jambs. Against the 

 north wall of the entry is a mass of red brickwork, 

 apparently part of a large sixteenth-century oven. 



The detached thirteenth-century building to the 

 east of the main block, already referred to as the 

 visiting abbots' lodging, is an interesting dwelling- 

 house, with a vaulted hall of three bays on the west, 

 a chapel on the south-east, and a cellar and latrine on 

 the north-east. The entrance is from the south-west, 

 and there may have been a fireplace in the east wall 

 of the middle bay of the hall, but the wall is here 

 broken away. The hall has north and south windows, 

 and in the west wall a three-light fifteenth-century 

 window and an original lancet light. The cellar has 

 had a barrel vault, and the chapel has a rib vault of 

 two bays and the remains of an east window of two 

 lights and of one or two windows on the south, 

 destroyed by later work. In the north wall is a 

 locker, and the west door from the hall is set to the 

 north of the centre line of the chapel, perhaps in 

 order to be on the east side of a screen crossing the 

 west bay of the hall from the south-west door. There 

 has been a second story over the whole building, of 

 which little can be said, and the position of the stair 

 which led to it is not certain, but may have been in 

 the angle formed by the chapel and hall. The general 

 arrangements of the house which was built hereafter 

 the suppression have been noted as far as they can be 

 seen. Browne Willis, writing about 1 7 1 8, * a says that 



the M of H ' converted the west end of the 



chapel below the cross isle into a kitchen and other 

 offices, keeping the east end of it for a chapel, in 

 which state it continued till about fifteen years ago, 



when Sir B L * sold the whole fabrick of 



the chapel to one Taylor a carpenter of Southampton, 

 who took off the roof (which was entire till then) 

 and pulled down great part of the walls.' Willis 

 further tells us that Taylor, who, to add to his other 

 sins, was a Dissenter, had forewarnings of personal 

 catastrophe in dreams during his sacrilegious doings, 

 and these were effectually fulfilled, for as he was hack- 

 ing at the west wall of the church, the tracery of the 

 great west window fell on him and put a stop to his 

 destructions. 



The manor of HOUND does not 

 MANORS appear in the Domesday Survey in 

 Mainsbridge Hundred, but is included in 

 Meonstoke Hundred as belonging to Hugh de Port's 

 manor of Warnford, not, however, paying geld with 

 Warnford, but with the lands in Mainsbridge Hun- 

 dred. 6 In 1 242 Robert de St. John, as heir of the 

 Ports, granted land to the abbey of Netley, which 

 Henry III had built and founded in the parish three 

 years before.' From this time until the dissolution 

 of the smaller monasteries in 1536 Hound remained 

 in the possession of the abbey. 



In 1251 Henry III granted the abbot and convent 

 free warren in their demesne lands of Netley, Hound, 

 Shotteshal (now Satchell), and Sholing, and also made 



41 Mitred Abbeys, ii, 205. 



* Sir Berkeley Lucy. 6 f.CJi. Hants, i, 4813. 7 Cal. of Pat. 1232-47, p. 333. 



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