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KNOW L H ILL.

B E R K S H IR E .

S t. Peter, built in 1840, is a plain edifice of red brick
witn stone dressings, alm ost entirely covered with ivy
and consisting of chancel and nave and a western tower
w ith spire, containing 2 bells: the chancel, added in
1871, is in the E arly E nglish style: the fine organ was
erected Jn 1875, as a m em orial to the Rev. J. E.
Austen Leigh, a form er vicar : the clock in the tower
was ^given in m emory of Major Court : with two ex­
ceptions all the windows are stained : there are 400
sittings. The register dates from the year 1840. The
livin g is a vicarage, net yearly value £195, with resi­
dence, in the g ift of trustees, and held since 1884 by
the Rev. Frederic Cam pbell Barham M .A. of Caius
College, Cam bridge. Sir G ilbert A ugustus Clayton-East
bart. of H all 1 lace, who is lord of the manor, Sir C. S.
Henry bart. M.P. of Parkwood, Henlev-on-Thames, John
W hitehead esq. J.P. and J. Dunn esq. are the principal
landowners. The soil is various; subsoil, chalk, clay
and sand.
The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats,
turnips &c. The population in 1901 was 700.
P R IV A T E

R E S ID E N T S .

Barham Rev. Frederic Campbell M.A.
(vicar), Vicarage
Bates Miss, The Cottage
Boyd Mrs. The Elm s
Curphey Mrs. Thornwood lodge
Elliott George Sami. Chalk Pit house
Henwood Tom , The Bungalow
Nicholson George Norris, Staffielcl
Outram Mrs. Choseley cottage
WThitehead John J.P. Choseiey house
COMMERCIAL.

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L A M B O F R N (or Chipping Lam bourn) is a parish and
sm all town, and the head of a p etty sessional division,
w ith a term inal station on the Lam bourn Valley rail­
way from Newbury, constructed in 1895-8 ; it is about
7 m iles south from Uffington station and 7 south-east
from Shrivenham station, both on the G reat Western
railway, 10 miles north from H ungerford, 12 miles
north-west from New bury and 10 south from W antage,
in the Southern division of the county, hundred of
Lam bourn, union and county court district of Hun­
gerford, rural deanery of Newbury, archdeaconry of
Berks and diocese of Oxford ; the Lam bourn river takes
its rise near here and flows through the town to the
Kennet, near Newbury. The town is lighted with gas
by a company. The church of St. Michael is an ancient
and spacious cruciform building of stone and shingle in
the Norman, E arly English and Perpendicular styles,
consisting of chancel, nave, transepts, three chapels,
south porch and a central em battled tower, with four
octagonal turrets and containing 8 bells and clock : the
chancel is of Early English date, and has a fine P er­
pendicular east window of five lights and a small De­
corated piscina : on the south side an arch of the same
period opens into an aisle called St. Mary’s chapel, and
eastward of it is a window, the sill of which forms
sedilia ; on the north side two Perpendicular arches
open to an aisle of that date : at the east end is a m ural
monum ent of late Elizabethan or Jacobean date to
Thom as Garrard and Agnes (Waldwyne) his wife ; and
in the south wall a slab of black m arble, with effigies
in brass of his son, Thomas Garrard, gent. 1619, Anne
(Ju tt) his wife, 1610, and Thomas, their son: there is
also a medallion of Charles I. in alabaster, with figures
representing Truth and Justice, standing on “ Round
Heads ’ in chains: the lower arches are good Norman,
alm ost Early English : the transepts have chiefly
Decorated and Perpendicular windows, but one lancet
survives in the north transept, which has a Transition
Norman arch on the west side: the chapel of St. Mary,
east of the south transept, belongs to the Decorated
period, and was built by John de Estbury about 1360:
he died October 25, 1375, and his tomb with that of his
son is in the chapel : the sumptous marble monum ent,
to the Garrard fam ily of Bockhamptòn, also form erlv in
this chapel, now remains only in fragm ents, which record
the names of Roger Garrard and Elizabeth (Violett), his
wife : south of St. Mary s chapel, and opening into it, is
the chapel of the Holy Trinity, a Late Perpendicular
structure, in the centre of which is an altar tom b, with
an effigy 111 copper of John Estbury, 1508, in a surcoat
of his arms and a m arginal inscription: this John E st­
bury was also the founder of the almshouse or hospital,
situated near the» churchyard, for ten poor men, who,
during divine service, are wont to kneel round thè
founder’s tom b, about which new oaken stalls were
placed, in 1888. by trustees, at a cost of £45, for that
purpose : there is also a brass, with half-effigies, to
John de. Estbury, c. 1400, and Agnes, his wife : the
Essex chapel, north of th e church, occupies the site of

k e lly ’s

Elem entary School (m ixed), built in 1846 by the late
Rev. J. E. Austen Leigh, the first incumbent, & en­
larged in 19x1, for 160 children; average attendance.
144; Thomas Butterworth, master
Carriers.
Em m ett, from Maidenhead to Reading, calls on tues
thurs. k sat
Sm ith, from Marlow to Reading, calls on wed. & sat

Bond Henry, grocer
Brunsden Charles, boot & shoe m aker
Burfoot Thomas, beer Tetailer
Burson Henry George, plumber
Cox John, farm bailiff to Frederick
Headington, Knowl H ill farm
D ulley W illiam , builder
Dullev W illiam Edward, beer retailer
Essen Robert, Bell k Bottle P.H
M cGill Patrick, New inn
Maskell Susannah (Miss),shopkeeper,
Post office

Bates John Jas. farm er, Bartletts fm

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L ittlew iek Green is partly in Knowl H ill and partly in
W hite W altham .
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PiUish Clerk, George Rufey.
Post & M. 0 . Office.— Miss Susannah Maskell, sub-post­
mistress. Letters through Twyford delivered at 7.45
a.m . & 12.45 & 7-3° P-m. ; dispatched at 8 a.m. &
1.5,
2.50 & 7.35 p.m . ; sundavs, 10.50 a.m . Kiln
Green is th e nearest telegraph office-, 1 m ile distant

Nowell Henry, Seven Stars P.H
N u tt Joseph, farmer
Oliver Kate (M rs.), beer Tetailer
Oliver Reuben, contractor
Prickett Edward W. beer retailer
Tomlinson Wm. farm er,M itchell’s fm
Warner k Co. brick k roofing tile
makers, Star brick k tile works
(im itation
old roofing tiles a
speciality)
Webster Richard W illiam , poultry
breeder, Hillside

the older chantry, founded by the De Bathes or the
Bohuns, but was extended eastward nearly two cen­
turies later to its present dimensions, and m ost prob­
ably by Sir Thomas Essex kt. whose very fine alabaster
monum ent is placed in this ch a p el; this tomb bears
life-size recumbent figures of Sir Thomas Essex, who
died 29 A ugust, 1558, and of dame Margaret, his wife,
fourth daughter of W illiam , first baron Sandys of the
Vine, w ith a m arginal in scription: around are many
memorials of the Seym ours, who for nearly three cen­
turies resided at Inholmes, in this parish, on one of
which, that of Edward Seymour esq. (ob. 1798), are
some verses by Henry James Pye esq. M .P., D-C-L. and
Poet Laureate in 1790; here also rests Charles Fettiplace, a benefactor to the local ch a rities: this chapel was
for a long time used as a house for the parish fire
engine, but was rebuilt from the foundations about
1850, and is now used as a choir vestry. The nave is
the oldest part of the church, and dates from the n th
century (1085): it has four bays, with Late Norman
arches and massive pillars, and a clerestory: at the
west end are traces of its original Norman windows,
with an existing circular window in the g a b le : the
staircase to the rood-loft, diverted from its original
course, is now connected with the tower, but the en­
trance is from the e x te rio r: on the wall, formerly
crossed by the rood-loft, is a p iscin a: the aisles were
originally much lower and lighted with small Norman
windows: but the existing south aisle seems to be
Decorated and that on the north side Perp en d icu lar:
the only remains of the old roofing are to be found
in the south aisle, elsewhere it was entirely renewed,
with the exception of the tie beams, in 1849-50: the
tower, erected some 60 or 70 years later than the nave,
is a perfect square of about 20 feet, and an excellent
example, as far as the top of the clock, of Transition
N orm an ; the upper portion is Perpendicular: about
1770 it was bound round on the exterior with iron­
work, and an independent bell-frame erected within :
in 1892 the tower was thoroughly restored, refaced with
stone, and the bells re-hung upon a new iron fra m e : a
new vaulted oak ceiling beneath the tower was also
erected: the south porch is Decorated, with Perpendi­
cular additions; above it is a parvise or priest’s room,
which used to be reached by a stone staircase from the
outside, but now by a spiral iron stair within the
porch; a corresponding porch on the north side was
removed in 1850: there are two fonts: the earlier, a
work in the debased Renaissance style, was obtained
between 1663 and 1666, and after having stood in the
north transept till 1849, was then removed and sold,
and used as a flower-pot in the garden of Mr. Lyne’s
farm , at Barton, near Marlborough, W ilts: in its place,
Mr. Hippisley presented a new font of pseudo-Norman
character, but in 1903 the 17th century font was re ­
covered and replaced in the church; the stained win­
dows in the T rin ity chapel are memorials, inserted bv
H. Hippisley esq. of Lambourn Place : the east window,
representing the “ Last Judgm ent,” was erected in 1876