SPELTHORNE HUNDRED 



HAMPTON 



In the north entrance lobby is the effigy, under 

 a canopy supported by Corinthian pillars, of Sibell 

 Penn, daughter of William Hampden of Dunton, 

 who was nurse to Edward VI, and died in 1562. 

 On the base of the tomb are the arms of Penn, 

 Argent a fesse sable with three roundels argent 

 thereon, separately and impaling the Hampden coat. 

 The tomb is simple but of excellent detail, with a fine 

 strapwork soffit to the canopy, and an inscription 

 of ten rhymed couplets on a panel at the back. 

 The effigy is well wrought, but curiously stiff, in a 

 long straight-sided gown with side pockets and a 

 short cloak over the shoulders. It is the ghost of 

 this lady, dressed exactly as she appears on her 

 tomb, which is said to haunt a certain part of 

 Hampton Court to this day. In the church are 

 many mural tablets, the most interesting being an 

 undated one to Edmund Pigeon, yeoman of the 

 Jewel House to Henry VIII and Clerk of the 

 Robes to Elizabeth ; another to his son, who suc- 

 ceeded him and died in 1 6 1 9 ; to Thomas Smithesby 

 of the Inner Temple, Keeper of the Privy Seal 

 under the Protectorate, died 1655; a restored 

 monument to Huntingdon Shaw, 1710, who 

 worked under Jean Tijou on the well-known 

 wrought-iron gates and screens at Hampton Court ; 

 and one at the east end of the south aisle to 

 Susanna Thomas, 1731, daughter and heiress of 

 Sir Dalby Thomas, Governor of the African Com- 

 pany's settlements. 



There are eight bells in the tower by Mears, 1831. 



The plate consists of a communion cup of 1704, 

 a cup and flagon of 1820, a cup of 1836 pre- 

 sented by Edward Johnson in 1845, two salvers 

 of 1828, and a modern silver-gilt chaKce and paten. 



Of the registers, Book i contains baptisms I 5 54 to 

 1656, and burials 155410 1650 ; Book ii baptisms 

 165610 1725, marriages 1657 to 1703, and burials 

 1656 to 1677 ; Book iii baptisms 1726 to 1749, 

 marriages 1726 to 1754, and burials 1726 to 1768; 

 and Book iv baptisms 165610 1812. The fifth is the 

 printed marriage register, 175410 1812, and the 

 sixth contains burials 1768 to 1812. 



The church of ST. JOHN, HAMPTON 

 WICK, was built at the same time as the parish 

 church of Hampton, and was intended as a chapel 

 of ease to it ; upon its completion, however, the 

 district was made a separate parish. It is a plain 

 building of yellow brick with stone dressings con- 

 sisting of a rectangular nave and chancel with side 

 galleries, and is in the same spiritless Gothic style 

 as Hampton Church. The register of baptisms 

 dates from 1831 and of marriages from 1832. 



The church of ST. J4MES, HAMPTON 

 HILL, built in 1863 and enlarged in 1878, is 

 of red brick in 13th-century style, and consists of 



chancel, nave of five bays, aisles, organ chamber, 

 south porch, and embattled tower at the south- 

 western angle with pinnacles and spire, and con- 

 taining four bells. The register dates from 1863. 

 The church appears to have 

 JDPOfPSON been originally appropriated to 

 the Abbey cf St. Valery or 

 Valeric in Picardy, as part of the possessions of 

 the Priory of Takeley in Essex. The temporali- 

 ties were seized by Edward III during his wars 

 with France, 1 and in the reign of Richard II the 

 advowson of Hampton, with all the other property 

 of the Abbey of St. Valery in Middlesex, was 

 alienated in frankalmoign to the ' warden and 

 Scholars of St. Mary's College of Winchester." 

 In 1543 it came by exchange to Henry VIII.* 

 The rectory and advowson were leased to Richard 

 Bennett* in 1546, and in 1562 to Edmund 

 Pigeon and Joan his wife, 4 afterwards, in 1574, to 

 Robert Nicolls, 6 who held them till 1585, when 

 they were leased to John Cely 7 for twenty-one 

 years. In 1607 James I granted the rectory in 

 fee to Michael Cole and John Rowden, with the 

 advowson of the vicarage. 8 They conveyed it to 

 Edmund Pigeon, said to have been the grandson 

 of the Edmund Pigeon who held it in 1562.' His 

 sisters and co-heirs Elizabeth Kyme 10 and Frances 

 Dorman afterwards held the rectory in moieties." 

 The whole became eventually vested in the 

 Dormans, and was again divided between their 

 heirs Frances Clarke and Mary Dorman, who 

 respectively sold their moieties to John Jones in 

 1675" and 1684." In 1692 John Jones be- 

 queathed the glebe and rectorial tithes to charitable 

 uses for the benefit of the parish. 14 The advowson 

 of the vicarage was reserved, and apparently re- 

 verted to the king, as in 1674 the ' impropriate 

 rectory with tithes and advowson ' was leased to 

 James Nayler, but in 1679 the living 15 was once 

 more in the gift of the Crown, and it has so 

 remained to the present time. 16 



The new ecclesiastical district of Hampton Wick 

 was formed in 1831, and that of Hampton Hill 

 in 1864." 



The Hampton Parochial Chari- 



CHAR1TIES ties were by a scheme of the Charity 



Commissioners dated 3 August 



1 894 consolidated, and comprise the following 



charities, namely : 



I. Tho Parish Lands, the earliest record extant 

 being surrenders, 1659 and 1662, made at a court 

 held for the honour and manor of Hampton Court; 

 the trust estate consists of two houses known as 

 'The Feathers,' with a garden opposite, and 

 ' River View,' and cottage and garden ; ' two allot- 

 ments awarded under the Inclosure Act, 1 8 1 1 , 



1 Cal. Pat. 134.3-S, pp. 8, 14, 143 ; 

 i 348-50, pp. 303, 428. 



4 Ibid. 1388-91, pp. 413, 414, 417. 



L. and P. Hen. VIII, xii (2), 849 ; 

 xviii (i),98i (46) ; Pat. 35 Hen. VIII, 

 pt. viii, m. 6. 



4 Pat. 37 Hen. VIII, m. 7 (6 Oct.). 



4 Pat. 4 Eliz. (26 June). 



Pat. 16 Eliz. pt. ii. 



" Pat. 28 Eliz. pt. x, m. 9. 



8 Pat. 5 Ja. I, pt. vi. 



Lysons, MM. Par. 83. Probably 

 the Edmund Pigeon to whose memory 

 there is a mural tablet in the church, 

 see supra. 



10 Feet of F. Midd. Hil. 1658. 



11 Ibid. Trin. 26 Chas. II (1674). 

 " Ibid. Trin. 27 Chas. II. 



13 Ibid. Hil. 36 & 37 Chas. II. 

 11 Deeds belonging to the parish. 



389 



15 Inst. Bks. P.R.O. 1679. 



16 Ibid. 1679, 1716, 1752, 1762-3, 

 1798, 1803. 



*7 Land. Gae. 1830-83. For the 

 whole history of advowson vidt New- 

 court, Reftrt. Eccl. i, 62 ; Lysons, 

 Midd. Par^ 83, Sec. Hampton Wick i 

 a vicarage in the gift of the Lord Chan - 

 ceUor,and Hampton Hill is also a vicar- 

 age in the gift of the vicar of Hampton. 



