pany of White Papermakcrs. Nine of the fifteen 



icmbers of the company were French refugees, and 



in 1702 Gerard de Vaux, 'frenchman,' was living at 



South Stoneham Mill. Here he was joined by 



another Huguenot, Henry Portal, who afterwards set 



up for himself at Laverstoke, and in 1724 obtained 



the contract for making bank-note paper, which his 



descendants still hold. 



North Stoneham Park is of great antiquity, and in 

 the fourteenth century was a fine deer park belonging 

 to the abbot of Hyde. 16 " 



r^ , m " sua 8 e L g nte d to the abbot by John de 

 t XT '" fourteenth century was conveyed 



with North Stoneham manor to Thomas Wriothesley 

 at the dissolution of the monasteries," and shares the 

 same history as that manor. 18 Traces of this mes- 

 suage possibly still exist in Chickenhall Farm. 



CHURCH a chancel 2 5 ft. long, and of equal width 



(i 5 ft. 2 in.) with a nave of ?c ft o j n 

 aisles of the full length of nave and chancel, i, ft ; in ' 

 and ii ft. 2 in. wide respectively, a west tower loft 

 by 9 it. 6 in., a north porch and a south vestry 



The various additions and alterations which have 



Bought the church to its present symmetrical plan 



have destroyed all evidence of any work earlier than 



the fifteenth century, with the exception of the 



west window of the tower, which is a beautiful 



triplet of thirteenth-century lancets, re-used here as 



t seems, when the tower was built in the sixteenth 



century. 



The nave arcades, of three bays with octagonal pillars, 

 simply moulded capitals, and arches of two chamfered 

 orders, are probably fifteenth-century work, while 

 the two bays on either side of the chancel are of 

 curious pseudo-Gothic character, and apparently of 

 late eighteenth or early nineteenth-century date 

 1 hey are of different section, and may perhaps be 

 intended as copies of mediaeval work formerly exist- 

 ing here but if this be the case the copying is not 

 sufficiently close to give grounds for assuming the date 

 or the former arcades. 



The east window of the chancel is of fifteenth- 

 century style, of three cinquefoiled lights with tracery 

 and flanked on the inside by modern niches for 

 images ; it is filled with painted glass made in 1826 

 by Edwards of Winchester, the subject being an 

 adaptation of Raphael's Transfiguration ; the resuk 

 is not happy. 



The aisle windows are of late Gothic character, 

 and probably m no case earlier than the sixteenth 

 :entury ; they have been a good deal repaired, modern 

 cuspmg bemg mserted, so that their dates are chiefly 

 matter of conjecture. Both aisles have three-light 

 east and west windows, the east window of the 

 south aisle having image brackets on either side of it 

 in the north aisle are four north windows, the eastern 

 of twocmquefoiled lights with tracery under a pointed 

 head, the next two square-headed, of three and four 



tT ar ,t^ aded j r thfee cin q uefo i led lights. Betwee'n 

 e third and fourth windows is a round-headed 

 north doorway with a plain quarter-round moulding 

 of uncertain but not ancient date. 



In the south aisle the south windows are all square- 

 headed, of three or four lights. The details of the 



A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



windows are not uniform, the west window of the 

 south aisle, and the four-light window in the north 

 aisle, being of better style than the rest 



The tower is of three stages, with a stair at the 

 north-east angle It is probably of sixteenth-century 

 date, but externally its details are hidden by ivy The 

 east arch ,s of a single pointed order, edge-chamfered 

 Th<= west window, as already noted, is a beautifu 

 piece of thirteenth-century detail : a triplet of lancets 



the I' h^ Seg 7 ntal rC \ r 3rch Wkh e "g*g* sh ^s to 

 lights and rear arch, having moulded capitals and 

 bases and bands at half height. The rear arch and 

 lights are also moulded, and the date of the whole is 

 about , ,230 . th bonding of the masonry shows th 



of ks b Td" 7 re ' USed '" thC tOWer at the *"> 



of its building in the sixteenth century 



of m V hC T & u" d W d fi " ingS f ^ church ^e 

 wiZw"! J*, bBt S , seventee "th-century altar-table 

 with twisted baluster legs stands at the east end of 

 the south aide The organ is at the east end of the 

 north aisle, and the font, which has an octagonal 

 bowl of Purbeck marble on a modern stone stem s 



like fif :r arch of the tower - The b wi 



b fifteenth-century work, but may be an older 

 bowl refashioned at that time. 



In the middle of the chancel floor is a bluish lime 



nTh ?' 6 ?- ^ by 3ft ' 8 -, formerly inThe 

 north aisle which was perhaps its original position. 

 On it is a shield charged with a double-headed eagle 

 surrounded by foliage o f f oreign Gothic "JJ 

 round the edge of the slab runs a marginal in'cript on 

 with the evangelistic symbols at the four angles- 



SEPULTURA DE LA SCHOLA DE SCLAVONI ANO D 5fl 

 MCCCCLXXXXI 



u u f a ^ ^nnexion of 



Stoneham with these Slavonians, who doubtless 



Re? G W M Pt n .r th the Venetian . The 

 ^ev G. W. Minns' 8 ' suggests that the slab may 

 h ve been brought here from the destroyed church of 

 St. Mary Southampton, c. ,550, as it is said that 



L matena ' f thh Church fou "d ^ way to 

 Stoneham. At the east end of the south ak 



L ^ th , Slde '- the . m nument of Sir Thoma 

 , Lord Chief Justice, who died in 1613 with 

 h-s effigy , scarlet robes, and that of his wif , and 

 kneeling figures of the six sons and two daughters 

 who survived him. Two sons and one daughter died 



tolT T: fSthe -' 3nd ^ n0t re P reSent ' d n ht 

 The mscription ,s in two panels on the base 

 and above the effigies are the arms of Fleming, gules a' 

 cheveron between three owls or, an ermine spot on 

 the cheveron, between Fleming impaling James (his 

 wife s family , and James, gules a dolphin or, quarter L 

 per fesse sable and or a lion or and gules 



sidfT? 6 M the FIeming monume "t, 'on the north 

 side of the aisle, ,s a mural tablet to John Serle, I ?7 6 

 his wife Chnstme, 1561, and their son John, ic;/ ' 

 In the south aisle also is a monument to Lord 



te Pat. SEdw. Ill, pt . , , m . 2< /. 

 ' Pat. 37 Hen. VIII, pt. ,, m . 9 . 



A wooden screen now in North Baddesley church 

 bearing Sir ^Thomas Fleming's initials and the date 1 60 z' 

 is said to have been brought from North Stoneham 

 It has been, as ,t seems, lengthened a few inches, and 

 its original s.ze, i S ft. 2 in, is precisely that of the 



. 467. 



480 



181 fnc. Hani, Field Glut, ii, 363. 



