A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



Dissolution Shamblehurst farm with Townhill manor 

 was in the possession of Netley Abbey, it seems 

 probable that the grant of Robert de Vere of Town- 

 hill to Netley Abbey in 1329 included Shamble- 

 hurst. 189 



The lands of Netley Abbey in Shamblehurst were 

 granted by Henry VIII, in 1537, to Sir William 

 Paulet, kt., 190 and two years later, by a similar grant, 

 he received that part of Shamblehurst which had 

 formerly belonged to St. Denys' Priory, and is 

 described as the grange. 191 In the inquisition taken 

 on the death of Sir William Paulet's grandson in 

 1599-1600, Shamblehurst is no longer called a 

 manor, but merely a farm held with Townhill. 192 

 Later than this no trace of manorial rights can be 

 found, and if any such had existed it is evident that 

 the Paulets allowed them to fall into abeyance. 

 The history of the farm of Shamblehurst from this 

 date is the same as that of Townhill manor (q.v.). 193 

 Shamblehurst was not sold with Townhill, however, 

 to Lord Swaythling, but still remains in the possession 

 of Mr. Caleb W. Gater of Salisbury, and is occupied 

 by Mr. N. Baxendale. 194 



The church of OUR LADY has a 



CHURCH chancel 24 ft. by 15 ft. 6 in. with south 



vestry, nave 52 ft. 4 in. by 20 ft. 4 in. with 



small north and larger south transepts, and a west 



tower. 



The plan of the nave and chancel seems to belong 

 to the end of the twelfth century, and the chancel arch 

 and walls of the chancel and perhaps a little of the nave 

 walls are of this date. 



The east window of the chancel is of the fifteenth 

 century, with three cinquefoiled lights and tracery 

 over, and in the north wall are three single lights, 

 the middle window higher in the wall than the others, 

 and round-headed, being of the date of the wall, the 

 lancets on either side of it being thirteenth-century 

 additions. On the south side the same arrangement 

 formerly existed, but the west window of the three is 

 not now to be seen, probably because it has been 

 blocked by the modern vestry. The small pointed 

 doorway opening to the vestry appears to be a thirteenth- 

 century priest's door. In the east wall of the chancel, 

 north of the altar table, is a rebated recess with an 

 arched head, and in the north wall a second recess, 

 but without a rebate. 



The chancel arch of two pointed orders with a roll 

 on the western angles, and large moulded label and 

 abaci, has detached jamb-shafts to the outer order, and 

 keeled engaged shafts to the inner. The latter have 

 hollow-fluted capitals and spurred bases, while the 

 capitals of the outer order are carved with plain 

 foliage. 



Hardly any features of ancient date remain in the 

 nave, which has two windows on the north and one 

 on the south, and is fitted with a west gallery. The 

 north transept has modern two-light windows on east 

 and west, and opens to the nave by a modern arch of 

 twelfth-century style, but the jambs of the arch are of 

 old stonework, perhaps of fourteenth-century date. 



The south transept opens to the nave by a tall arch 



with a poor imitation of twelfth-century detail, and is 

 of modern date. 



The tower is apparently of the sixteenth century, 

 with two-light belfry windows uncusped, and an em- 

 battled parapet. Over the west doorway, which is a 

 modern imitation of twelfth-century work, is a niche, 

 and the west doorway of the nave, on the east of the 

 tower, is of uncertain date though probably mediaeval, 

 with a plain chamfered arch. The roofs of the church 

 are red tiled and the internal woodwork is nearly all 

 modern. In the vestry is a seventeenth-century table, 

 and on the south side of the chancel arch a good carved 

 chest of much the same date. Over the chancel arch 

 are the royal arms of Charles II, dated 1660, and 

 above the belfry window on the south face of the 

 tower is a sundial dated 1738. 



The font, at the north-east of the nave, is of Pur- 

 beck marble, of late twelfth-century date, with a square 

 bowl having four round-headed arches on each face 

 inclosing wedge-shaped objects in relief. The upper 

 surface of the bowl has foliage in the angles, and the 

 bowl is carried on a central and four outer shafts, the 

 latter being modern, while the base stone is old. 



There are several interesting monuments. On the 

 north wall of the chancel, below the middle window, 

 is a pretty recessed tomb off. 1540, with a panelled 

 base in three divisions, each bearing a blank cartouche 

 in a wreath, while on the upper part, which has a four- 

 centred canopy with panelled soffit of Gothic detail, 

 flanked by pilasters of Italian style carrying an ara- 

 besque cornice, are three other panels, the two outer with 

 blank cartouches, and the middle one having a tablet 

 engraved with the initials F.D., B.D. 



On the south side of the chancel, opposite this tomb, 

 is that of Edmond Clerke, 1632, and his wife Anne : 

 their figures kneeling under a canopy, with those of 

 four sons and eight daughters on the base of the monu- 

 ment. The north wall of the north transept is en- 

 tirely occupied by the large grey and white marble 

 monument of Edmund Dummer, 1724. 



There are three bells, one by Gillett and 

 Bland of Croydon, 1880, and the others of 1603 and 

 1619. 



The plate consists of a silver cup of 1630, a 

 second cup with a paten given in 1 704 by Mrs. Amy 

 Clarke, another cup and paten given in 1756 by 

 Mrs. Elizabeth Shoare, a salver of 1828, given by 

 Mrs. Mary Jones, and a pewter flagon, the gift of 

 the Rev. W. D. Harrison. 



The first book of registers goes from 1663 to 1713, 

 the second to 1 754, and the third, containing baptisms 

 and burials only, to 1 793. The fourth book continues 

 these entries to 1812, while the marriages from 1754 

 to 1812 are entered in two other books. 



SOUTH STONEHAM church at 



4DVOWSON the time of the Domesday Survey 



was the property of Richer the clerk, 



who held this, with two dependent churches near 



Southampton, of the bishop of Winchester. 195 



In the Valor of 1535 South Stoneham rectory is 

 described as an appropriation of St. Mary's Church, 

 Southampton, 196 and both churches were peculiar 



188 Chan. Inq. a.q.d. zEdw. Ill, No. 19. 

 See Townhill. 



"90 Pat. 28 Hen. VIII, pt. 3, m. 12. 



l" 1 Pat. 31 Hen. VIII, pt. 5, m. 5. 



192 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), vol. 262, 

 No. 125. 



" See Townhill. 



194 Information from Lord Swaythling. 



195 V.C.H. Hants, i, 467 a. At this date 

 the tithes of South Stoneham and I hide 

 of land there were appurtenances of the 

 church. 



488 



196 As early as 1291 in the Taxatio of 

 Pope Nicholas a chapel attached to St. 

 Mary's Church is mentioned, but South 

 Stoneham church is not included by 

 name. Pope Nich. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 

 210. 



