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CHILTON .

B E R K S H IR E .

C H I L T O N is a sm all but picturesque village and
parish, pleasantly situated on a rise of the Downs, about
7 m iles south-east from W antage and 2 m iles east from
Upton station on the Didcot and W inchester branch of
the G reat W estern railway, in the Southern division of
the county, Com pton hundred, Ilslev petty sessional
division, union and county court district of W antage,
ru ra l deanery of W antage, archdeaconry of Berks and
diocese of Oxford. The church of A ll Saints is a small
building of stone, of the E arly English and later periods,
consisting of chancel, nave of two bays, south aisle,
south porch and a western tower with open em battled
parapet and small gabled pinnacles and containing 6
bells and a sanctus b e ll: in 1892 the tenor bell was
recast and two new bells added; a clock which strikes
the hours was also placed in the tcwer at the same
tim e ; the chancel was restored in 1876 under the direc­
tion of th e late G. E. Street esq. R.A. : the south aisle
appears to be E arly English, and is divided from the
nave by an arcade of two Pointed arches supported by
a single circular column, with a boldly mounted cap
and base; the windows of the church are chiefly of
the Decorated and Perpendicular p erio d s; the south
porch and tower are m od ern : in the south aisle stands
a font, a deep ten-sided basin hewn out of a solid block
of sto n e; it expands sligh tly towards the top and is
placed on a circular b a se: in the north wall of the nave
is a trefoiled niche : in the chancel, on the north side,
is a m ural m onum ent of m arble, in the Classic style’
to Richard Knapp esq. reader of the Inner Tem ple,’ d.
June 6, 1716, and Jane, his wife, d. 5th Septem ber,
1737, and two ch ild ren ; above is a shield of arm s, or, a
lion, pass, sable, and in chief, 3 h e lm e ts ; on the south
side is a tablet inscribed to George Knapp, d. 12
N ovem ber, 1809: on the west side of the chancel arch
is a marble m onum ent in the Classic style, erected
d u rin g his lifetim e, by Adam Head, to him self (d. 8th
A pril, 1729); Martha, his wife, d. 21 December, 1735,
and 3 children, 1703-23, w ith inscription in L atin, and
below an inscription to Head Plott, of Upton, gent,
grandson of Adam Head, d. November 7th, 1765; on
th e arcade is a marble tablet to Elizabeth, wife of Head
Plott, buried May 24, 1773; Annie, wife of Thomas
Y orke, buried December 17, 1756, and Annie, wife of
Richard Hopkins, d. M arch 21, 1807: the stained east
window is a m em orial t-o the Rev. Edward Morland
Chaplin M .A. a form er rector, who died June 1, 1877,
and there is a small m em orial window to Mary G. R.
Chaplin, d. 9th July, 1871: in the churchyard, east of
the aisle, are three altar tom bs to the Knapp fam ily
of Blewbury and Chilton, 1754-1817: near the porch is
a coped tom b to the Rev. Charles G aisford M .A. rector,
d. 1st A ugust, 1857, and by the entrance to the rectory
grounds is a marble cross m arking the grave of the
Rev. E. M. Chaplin M.A. 19 years rector, inscribed to
him self and others of his fa m ily ; and a cross to Miss
Susan M orlan d : there is an altar tomb and m ural

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tablet to the Goddard fam ily, 1742-1800; coped tombs
to the fam ily of Lay, 1815-75, and other memorials to
the fam ilies of Stevens, 1854-72; Guy, 1885, and Lewinton, 1803-9: on the east side of the churchyard is a
lich-gate, surmounted by a c ro ss: the church affords
100 sittings. The register dates from the year 1584.
The living is a rectory, net income ¿270, with residence
and 70 acres of glebe, in the gift of the trustees of the
late G. B. Morland esq. and held since 1877 by the Rev.
Anthony Thomas Morland M.A. of T rin ity College, C am ­
bridge. Here is a Prim itive Methodist chapel. Thomas’s
charity is ¿336 6s. 8d. ¿ 2 f per Cent. Consols, the
interest to be distributed in bread. A little distance
below the church, on the south side of the village,
stands what still remains of the Manor house of the
Lattons, anciently called “ Latton’s Place,” but now
com pletely modernized and converted into a farm
residence: up to about 1878 or later, the house sur­
rounded three sides of a small courtyard, and had two
oak panelled rooms, one of which, on the ground floor,
possessed a nearly perfect carved cornice, bearing the
quartered shield of the Latton fam ily, who removed
here from Upton in the reign of H enry VII. but
having purchased, in 1542, with other property, the
manor of Kingston Bagpuze, they settled there until
about 1670, when John, son and heir of Thomas L a t­
ton, of Kingston, scld the estates and removed to
Esher, in Surrey, 'but the fam ily is now extinct. The
house now consists only of th e centre and west w in g ;
the whole of the woodwork, together with some frag­
ments of stained glass, was sold by the landlord to a
local dealer in antiques at Abingdon, for ¿ 1 6 , in order
to pay for repairs, and a very fine and massive table of
oak, form erly in the kitchen, is said now to be in the
hands of some person at Chippenham. John Latton
esq. of Chilton, was representative in Parliam ent for
the city of Oxford in 1529, and subsequently held the
offices of treasurer and governor of the Inner Tem ple;
he died 30th May, 1548, and his brass, with effigies of
him self and Anna (Yate), his wife, is in the church of
St. Michael, Blewbury. Race horses are trained here.
Lady Wantage, of Lockinge Park, is lady of the manor
and chief landowner. The soil is chiefly chalk and
light g ra v e l; subsoil, chiefly chalk. The chief crcps
are wheat, barley and roots. The area is 1,448 acres;,
rateable value, ¿1,4 15 ; and the population in 1901
was 216.
Parish Clerk and Sexton, James Green.
Post & T. Office.— Harry H. Pyke, sub-postmaster.
Letters arrive through Steventon at 8 a.m . & 2.30
P m - ; 7 -3° a m - on S u n d a y s ; dispatched at 11.30
a.m. & 6.20 p.m . ; Sundays, 8.30 a.m. W est Ilsley is
the nearest money order office
Elem entary School (m ixed), built in 1870, for 60 child­
ren ; average attendance, 35 ; Frederick G. Harris,
master

Cobb Francis
Harris W illiam John, farm er
Spiers Brothers, farmers
M arshall John H erbert Allen
Oliver Henry Edward, farm er
Spiers George, Rose & Crown P.H
Morland Rev. Anthony Thomas M .A. Prior David, farm er
Spiers Hy. sporting correspondent
Rectory
T v k e Harrv H. grocer & baker, Post Spiers James, tu rf correspondent
c o m m e r c ia l .
| office
Woodley Frederick W illiam , Horse I
H all Job, draper & grocer
Ray Charles, racehorse trainer
Jockey P.H. & assistant overseer
C H I L T O N F O L I A T T is a parish form erly partly 1 Viet. c. 73), by Local Government Board’s Provisional
in Berks but principally in W iltshire. Under the pro- Orders Confirmation (No. 12) Act, 1895, the Berkshire
visions of th e “ Local Government Act, 1894” (56 & 57 I portion was added to the civil parish of Hungerford.
C H O L S E Y , in Domesday, “ Celsea,” is a village and
p arish, separated from Oxfordshire by the river Thames,
2% miles south-west from Wallingford and h alf a mile
from the new Cholsey and Moulsford station on the Great
W estern railway, opened in 1893 in lieu of the former
station at Moulsford, and now the junction for the
branch to W allin gfo rd ; extensive sidings have also been
constructed h e re ; it is in the Northern division of the
county, hundred of Moreton, petty sessional division,
union and county court district of W allingford , and in
the rural deanery of Wallingford, archdeaconry of Berks
and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Mary is a
cruciform building, without aisles, and consists of chancel, nave, transepts, south porch and an em battled
central tower containing 6 b ells: the tower was restored
in 1909 at a cost of over ¿300: the ancient church
h avin g been burnt down by the Danes, an E arly Norman
edifice was built on the s ite ; some traces of the older
edifice, consisting of burnt stones &c. were found when
the chancel was restored in 1873: the chancel is very
fine E arly English, with five lancets on south and three
on north side and a good east window with three
lig h ts partly filled w ith stained g la s s : the massive
piers supporting the arcade are E arly Norman, but the

upper part of the tower is Decorated and has an
octagonal stair-turret of the same date with a pyram idal
ro o f; the south doorway of the nave is also Norman,
with zigzag and billet mouldings and sculptured caps,
and the door retains its original iron w o rk ; the nave
has two windows on the north side, and also two long
' and narrow Norman windows on the south side : in the
j nave and south transept are several brass inscriptions,
; the earliest of which, in Norman-French, is to “ John
; Barfoot de Chelseye,” who died 8th Oct. 1361 ; another
j and later brass commemorates Sir John Gate, one of the
j earliest vicars, who died 21st July, 1394; in the chan­
! cel is an interesting brass, somewhat m utilated, to John
| Mere, also a form er vicar of this church, with effigy in
eucharistic vestments and holding a chalice; he died
13th June, 1471 : the church was partly repaired in 1849,
and the chancel and transept were restored in 1878 at
a cost of ¿1,3 0 0 : during the year 1886 the south tran­
sept was fitted up for daily services: there are about
350 sittings : in the churchyard is a yew tree, the trunk
of which is about six yards in circumference.
The
register dates from the year 1679. The living is a
vicarage, net yearly value ¿270, with residence, in the
g ift of the Lord Chancellor, and held since 1909 by the