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KINGSTON LISLE.

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oi Berks and diocese of Oxford. The W ilts and Berks Berkeley, whose only daughter and heiress married
canal passes on the north. The chapel of St. John Richard Beauchamp, 5th earl of Warwick, and their
is an ancient and in teresting edifice of stone, consist­ eldest daughter M argaret was the second wife of John
in g of chancel, nave, north porch and a western bell Talbot, 1st earl of Shrewsbury, whose eldest son John
cote containing 2 b e lls : the walls are Norman with was, in 1444, created Baron Lisle, and in 1452 Viscount
later insertions, the east window and others in the L is le : on the death of Thomas, 2nd viscount, 20th
chancel being Decorated, b u t one Norman window March, 1469, without issue, these titles fell into abey­
still rem ains as well as a Norman doorway, with very ance between his two sisters, Margaret, wife of Sir
curious ironwork 011 the d o or: the chapel was restored George Vere kt. and Elizabeth, wife of Sir Edward
in 1883, at a cost of £948, when the interior was re­ G rey kt. who on the death of Lady Vere was created.
fitted w ith finely carved oak benches and handsome 15 Edward IV. (1475-6) baron, and subsequently (28th
bell cote erecte d ; several perfect frescoes containing June, 1483) Viscount L isle ; their daughter Elizabeth
eleven figures were discovered and preserved, and many was the wife of Edm und Dudley, whose son John was
coins, tiles &c. were found : a stained glass window was in turn created, about 1528, Viscount Lisle and after­
erected in 1910 to the m emory of Lieut.-Col. A. D. wards Earl of Warwick and Duke of N orthum berland;
Rickm an by his widow and ch ild ren : there are 100 this nobleman sold the manor to W illiam Hyde, of
sittin gs. The register dates from the year 1559: D enchworth; Sir George Hyde K .B . of Denchworth,
entries of burials up to 1883 are in the register of removed here in 1617, and "dying in 1625 was buried
Sparsholt. The living is attached to the vicarage of in Sparsholt church; his descendant, John Hyde, about
Sparsholt, and under the im propriation of Queen’s the middle of the 18th century, sold the manor to
College, O xfo rd ; join t net income £322, w ith 14 acres Abraham Atkins esq.
Kingston Lisle Park is the
of glebe and residence, in the g ift of Queen’s College, property and residence of Edmund Stevens esq. : the
Oxford, and held since 1898 by the Rev. Francis mansion is a large building, standing in a well-wooded
Archibald Pattullo Shirreff M .A. of th at college, and and undulating park, extending over an area of 120
rural dean of W antage, who resides at Sparsholt. acres. The Earl of Craven, who is lord of the manor,
Here is a Baptist chapel, founded in 1790, with an and Edm und Stevens esq. are the principal landowners.
endowment of about £35 a year, left by the late The soil is chalk and green s a n d ; subsoil, clay and
A braham A tkins esq.: the chapel seats 80 persons;
green sand. The chief crops are wheat, beans, oats
at Faw ler is a Prim itive M ethodist chapel. Half a and grass. The area is 2,034 acres of land and 6 of
m ile from the village, in a hollow of the Downs, and w a ter; rateable value. £2.499'» ar*d the population in
beside an old oak tree, is the famous “ Blowing Stone,” 1901 was, of Kingston Lisle with Fawler, 264; Old
a large Sarsden or Sarsen of quartzoze sandstone, Field farm and cottages, with 24 inhabitants, were
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brought from the adjoining h ills; it is about a yard transferred
Baulking,________
March 24, 1888, by Local
square and half a yard in thickness, and is perforated Governm ent Board Order, «,438
with several holes, one of which, if lu stily blown into,
em its a sound audible at some distance. The manor Post & T. Office.— Charles Hugh Hughes, sub-post­
m aster. Letters through W antage arrive at 7.55 a.m.
at the tim e of the Domesday Survey was held by the
& 1.20 p.m. ; dispatched at 3.40 & 6.25 p.m. ; sunK in g, but was subsequently given by Henry I. to the
days, 9.20 a.m. Uffington is the nearest money order
F itzgeralds, the heiress of which fam ily in the reign
office
of Henry II. married W illiam de Insula, or de Lisle,
and Alice de Lisle had licence from Richard II. in 1366 ' Elementary School (mixed),established in 1874, for 65
to enclose a
park here. M argaret, only daughter of
children; average attendance, 5 1 ;
Warine, 2nd
baron de Lisle, married Thomas, Lord , m istress
Cayley Lieu t. H arry Francis (R .X .). Deane Frederick Wm. farmer, Hale
Thornhill house
farm (postal address, Faringdon)
Stevens Edmund, Kingston Lisle pk G ilbert A. John, racehorse trainer,
W eight
Rev.
Ernest
Llewellyn
Kingston Warren
(curate), Fawler
H ughes Chas. Hugh,shopkpr.Post off
Palm er Ellen Louisa (Mrs.), The
C O M M ER CIA L.
Plough P.H
Coles James, blacksm ith
Pearce W illiam (M rs.), dress maker
K I N T B T J R Y , anciently “ Cheneteberie,” is a large
parish, situated on the river K ennet and intersected by
the K ennet and Avon canal, with a station on the Great
W estern railway, 3 miles east-by-south from H unger­
ford and 58^ from London, in the Southern division of
the county, hundred of K intbury-E agle, petty sessional
division and county court district of Hungerford, Hun­
gerford and Ramsbury union, rural deanery of New­
bury, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. It
was anciently a market town and had two annual fairs.
The church of St. Mary the Virgin is an ancient struc­
ture of flint, stone and brick, in the Late Norman,
E a rly English and Decorated styles, consisting of chan­
cel, nave, transepts, south porch and a western tower
of Late Norman and Perpendicular date, w ith a plain
parapet, and containing a clock and 6 bells : the chancel
is divided from the nave by a massive Norman arch,
and has a piscina formed in the sill of a window ; the
reredos is of wood and alabaster carved and illum inated,
and has in the centre a sculptured representation of the
“ Crucifixion ; ” in the church are several ancient m onu­
m ents to the fam ilies of the present and form er lords of
the manor, including Sir John D arrell hart, of West
Woodhay, ob. 1625 ; Sir Jem m ett Raymond and Sir
Jonathan Raymond, both by Scheemaker, and to the
Shaws ; on the south side of the chance] is a curious
brass w ith effigies to John Gunter, buried 2 Jan. 1624,
and to Alice, his wife, buried at Cirencester, 18 March,
1626, erected by his son-in-law, Joseph Plat ; and in the
north transept is a memorial window to the late F. H.
Appach esq. of Elcot Park, and members of his fam ily :
in the chancel is another to Philip Jem m ett, alderman
of London, 1678 ; and in the nave a tablet to the Hon.
Charles Dundas, of Barton Court (created 10th May,
1832). baron A m esbury of Kintbury, a member of thè
House of Commons for more than' half a century and
representative of this county during ten successive Par­
liam en ts; the barony, on his death, 30 June, 1832,
became extinct ; his daughter Janet married the late
A dm iral Sir Jam es W hitley-Deans Dundas G .C .B .,

Rebbeck Jonathan, farmer, Home frm
Simpson Jane (Mrs.), shopkeeper
Sm ith Charles Collins, farmer
Smith Frank, farm er, Kingston com
Sm ith W alter Chas. farmer, Fawler
Whitfield Henry (Mrs.), farm er, Faw­
ler farm

M.P. of Barton Court, who died 30 October, 1862, and
to whom there is a memorial window in the church ;
there is also a brass to the Rev. James W hitley-Deans
Dundas, and other stained windows to John Lidderdale
M.D. to whom there is also a brass tablet, and to
Capt. Thomas Dunn, of Inglewood; in the south tran ­
sept is an inscribed tablet to William Shaw, of Ingle­
wood, d. 16th November, 1874, and a m ural monument,
with figure, to Margaret, widow of Major-General Dunn
R.A. of Inglewood, d. 1890; the massive brass lectern
was presented by his widow, m other and children, in
memory of C. A. W. D undas; the stalls were put in as
a memorial to the late vicar, the Rev. William Fraser
Cam pbell; a new organ was provided in 1889; the
church was restored in 1859 at a cost of about £800,
and again in 1884-5,
a cost of £1,400. when the
interior wras reseated and a new vestry b u ilt; it was
again enlarged in 1905 : there are 280 sittings, of which
80 are free. In the churchyard is a monument of
stone, surmounted by a cross, to the Rev. F. C. A ld er­
man, d. July, 1875. one of Aberdeen granite to the
Rev. W illiam Fraser Campbell, vicar 1873-86. The
register dates from the year 1559. " The living is
a vicarage, net yearly value £482, with 4 acres
of glebe and residence, in the gift of Lieut.-Col.
L. G. Oliver, of Heacham, Norfolk, and held since
1886 by the Rev. Arthur William Henry Edwards
M.A. of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. A ‘ short dis­
tance east of the church is an ancient cemetery,
discovered and carefully examined, by Mr. W alter
Money F .S .A . of Newbury, and assumed to be the
“ holy place ” alluded to in the will of Walfgar, a Saxon
thane of Inkpen, to whom, in 931, Athelstan had granted
lands at Hamme : Saxon skeletons are numerous on this
spot, and a number of Saxon coins were found here in
1762. C hrist Church, a chapel of ease to St. Mary’s,
and situated at the southern end of the parish, on land
given by the late Earl of Craven, was consecrated in
June, 1867, and is an edifice of red brick with dressings
of Bath stone in the Decorated style, from designs by