Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...are also some old carved bench-ends at Hasfield. The small church of Hid has some fourteenth century oak benches. Iron Acton has many buttressed seat-ends, c. 1580, with linenfold panels, narrowed for the fronts of the seats, but wider for the standards; there are six of these linenfold panels buttressed to the back seats next the cross passage (see "Spring Gardens' Sketch Book," vol. vii., Plates 23, 24). At Lower Lemington there is a chair constructed out of old bench-ends. Notgrove has some wellcarved old pewing of late fifteenth century date; on the back of the reading pew is " Richard de Noel and Thomas de Noel, Churchwardens, 1619." In the quire of Sapperton are two pews of old linenfold panels, and two fronts to stalls of like design under the tower, temp. Henry VIII.; there is also much elaborate woodwork, temp. Queen Anne. Both Stoke Orchard and Tredington have Elizabethan benches. Hampshire. Hampshire, though of considerable size and possessing a multiplicity of churches, has a comparative scarcity of ancient seating. The remarkably fine stalls of Winchester Cathedral (68 stalls, c. 1296, and Christchurch, 58 stalls) have already received attention in previous volumes of this series. In the north quire of Alton there are some fifteenth century old stalls with misericords. The south aisle of Bentworth has some plain oak benches of the sixteenth century. At Bramley some of the old seats with buttressed bench-ends, c. 1500, remain. Chilbolton has sixteenth century linenfold panels in part of the quire seats facing east. In the nave of Empslwtt are a good number of benches, c. 1600, with trefoiled panels in the standards. At Heckfield there are some remains of old benches. The chancel of Monk's Sherborne has some good solid oak ben...
