A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



a lower level, and just east of it a small blocked priest's 

 doorway. The chancel arch is pointed, of two 

 chamfered orders, with half-round shafts to the inner 

 order, and moulded capitals and bases. The nave 

 has at the north-east a small modern vestry, and three 

 lancets in the north wall. On the south side are two 

 lancets and a plain pointed doorway under a modern 

 porch, and at the south-east a wide two-light window 

 to light the south nave altar, with a piscina recess 

 below it, but no drain. There is a plain west door- 

 way. The north side of the church is overgrown 

 with ivy, hiding any traces of a north door to the 

 nave, if such existed. The roofs are old, with trussed 

 rafters, collars, and tie-beams with king-posts from 

 which the pole plates are strutted. Externally they 

 are red-tiled, the bell-turret being boarded, with a 

 slate roof. At the north-west of the nave stands a 

 Purbeck marble font with octagonal bowl, much 

 retooled, with two pointed arches sunk on each face ; 

 it has an octagonal central and four smaller shafts, 

 and dates from e. I zoo. 



There are pits for four bells in the turret, but only 

 three bells, all of 1607 ; the tenor has the founder's 

 initials R.B. 



The plate consists of a cup of Elizabethan type, but 

 without h.ill-marks, with initials and date IL IB 1689, 

 the initials being those of the churchwardens ; a paten 

 of 1723, given in 1724 by an unknown benefactress ; 

 a modern chalice and paten of 1879 anc ^ 1880 

 respectively, two silver-mounted glass cruets, and a 

 plated flagon. 



The earliest register preserved is the burial register 

 for 1792-1812. For earlier entries see Hamble. 



To the south of the church is a fine yew tree, and 

 the churchyard, which is entered by a stone lichgate 

 at the north-west, has been lengthened westward 

 from the line of the west wall of the nave. 



The modern church of Hound and Netley stands 

 to the south of the site of Netley Abbey, in remem- 

 brance of which it is dedicated in honour of ST. 

 EDWARD THE CONFESSOR. It was built from 

 the designs of J. D. Sedding in 1886, and consists of 

 chancel with north vestry and organ chamber, a tower 

 of three stages with an eastern chapel on the south 

 side of the chancel, and a nave with chapels of two 



bays on the north-east and south-east, and a western 

 narthex or baptistery. It is a very attractive example 

 of Sedding's work, and its fittings and colouring are 

 excellent. Under the tower are two stones from 

 Netley Abbey one a small Purbeck marble effigy of 

 a knight in mail, with shield and sword, of thirteenth- 

 century date, which probably covered a heart-burial 

 or the like, and the other a fifteenth-century incised 

 slab with the figure of a Cistercian monk in his habit. 

 It has had an inscription, of which only the word 

 Johes is left. In the tower is a ring of eight bells of 

 1886. 



No mention of a church at Hound 

 ADVOWSON occurs in the Domesday Survey, 

 although the existence of Netley 

 chapel is recorded.* 8 Tradition states that Hound 

 church was built by Hamble Priory about 1230, ten 

 years before the founding of Netley Abbey.* 9 Neither 

 Hound nor Netley church is entered among the 

 possessions of the priory in the Ministers' Accounts of 

 1325, but in 1344 the king, who owing to the 

 French wars had the possessions of Hamble-le-Rice 

 and other alien priories in his hands, presented 

 Richard de Montserrel to the church of Hound, 80 

 which must therefore have been acquired by the 

 priory before 1344. In 1391 the possessions of the 

 priory were all sold, and William of Wykeham 

 acquired the church of Hound for his college of 

 St. Mary, Winchester. From this date the warden and 

 governors of the college have always held the 

 advowson. 



A chapel at Netley is mentioned in Domesday," 

 but since there is no further mention of it with the 

 manor, it is possible that the prior and monks 

 acquired it at the same time as they did the church 

 of Hound, and that with it it passed to Winchester 

 College. 



In 1882 Henry Usborne, in the 

 CHARITIES chapelry of Scholing or Sholing 

 St. Mary, formerly part of Hound, 

 by deed, gave a sum of 100 consols, income to be 

 applied for the benefit of the poor. The stock is 

 held by the official trustees, and the dividends are 

 remitted to the vicar and churchwardens for appli- 

 cation. 



NORTH STONEHAM 



Ad Lapidem (x cent.) 1 ; Staneham (xi cent.) ; Stan- 

 ham Abbatis (xiii cent.) 



The parish of North Stoneham, comprising over 

 5,026 acres, thirty- two of which are covered by water, 

 is situated in the New Forest division of the county, 

 north-east from Southampton, and south-west from 

 Eastleigh. 



In the east is the River Itchen, which forms the 

 boundary between North and South Stoneham, and 

 one of its tributaries, Monk's Brook, traverses the 

 parish from north to south. The land is fertile and 

 well wooded ; there are 896 acres of wood, 1,485 of 

 arable, and 1,088 of permanent grass-land.' 



The soil is red loam with a gravel or clay subsoil, 

 and the inhabitants, mostly engaged in agriculture, 

 cultivate wheat, oats, and barley. 



The main roads from Southampton to Winchester, 

 and from Romsey to Botley, cross the parish. 



There is a gradual slope of the land from the north- 

 west, where the average altitude is 200 ft. above the 

 ordnance datum, to the south-east and south, where is 

 the River Itchen, and where the altitude is only 50 ft. 

 Most of the centre of the parish is occupied by North 

 Stoneham Common and North Stoneham Park. The 

 latter surrounds the Manor House, now unoccupied, 

 and covers 500 acres. The grounds are well laid 



V.C.H. Hant,, i, 495. 

 M Information obtained from the vicar, 

 Rev. W. A. Chevalier. 



M Pat. 14 Ric. II, pt. 2, m. I. 

 V.C.H. Hant,, i, 4953. 



1 ArMmmu Iter. Brit. (B.M. Reading 

 Room, 984, G. 12) gives a place Ad 

 Lapidem, 6 miles from Winchester and 

 4 miles from Clausentum (Bitterne). 

 Ven. Bede, Ecd. Hist, iv, xvi, relates 



47 8 



the martyrdom of two sons of Aliwald, 

 king of Isle of Wight, ' ad Lapidem,' near 

 the mouth of the Itchen. 



9 Statistics from the Bd. of Agric. 

 (1905). 



