Tichborne | |
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![]() St. Andrew's parish church | |
Location within Hampshire | |
Population | 168 (2001 Census)[1] 167 (2011 Census)[2] |
OS grid reference | SU5730 |
Civil parish |
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District | |
Shire county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Alresford |
Postcode district | SO24 |
Dialling code | 01962 |
Police | Hampshire and Isle of Wight |
Fire | Hampshire and Isle of Wight |
Ambulance | South Central |
UK Parliament | |
Tichborne is a village and civil parish 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Winchester in Hampshire, England.
History
[edit]In archaeology in the south of the parish within the South Downs National Park is a bell barrow, bowl barrow and regular aggregate field system immediately east of Ganderdown Farm,[3] a Scheduled Ancient Monument indicating Bronze Age inhabitation.
Manor
[edit]In AD 909 Edward the Elder granted the manor of Tichborne to Denewulf, Bishop of Winchester.[4] However, Tichborne is not recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086.
The Roman Catholic Tichborne family has held the manor since the 12th century. Tichborne House was built shortly after 1803[5] while a longstanding baronetcy (indicating the use of 'Sir') was held by the family. There was a notorious 19th-century legal case of the Tichborne Claimant, in which an English imposter, Arthur Orton, then living in Australia, claimed to be missing Tichborne family member Sir Roger Tichborne.
Other buildings
[edit]Almost all of the other buildings are clustered near each other and are listed buildings.[6] They include an Old Rectory[7] which may indicate chancel repair liability, the Chapel of St Margaret.[8] and Tichborne Park House.[9] Near Cheriton is the only Grade II* listed building, Sevington Farmhouse.[10] 1 mile (1.6 km) east of Alresford are a northern small street of cottages, Lady Croft Cottages and Seward's Bridge over the River Itchen and Watercress Line railway.
Parish church
[edit]The Church of England parish church of Saint Andrew has an 11th-century Saxo-Norman chancel that combines characteristically Saxon double-splayed windows with Norman flat buttresses[11] and has reached Grade I listed status.
[12] The nave and two-bay arcades are Early English Gothic.[11]
The north aisle is now railed off to form the Tichborne Chapel, with monuments to members of the manorial family[11] Inside the chapel is a tomb with full-sized horizontal images of Sir Benjamin Tichborne (d.1621) and his wife Amphillis.
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Tichborne_church_grave.jpg/220px-Tichborne_church_grave.jpg)
It is rare in being dedicated as a Roman Catholic chapel within a pre-Reformation Anglican Parish Church.[13]
The west tower was added in 1703 and is built of blue and red brick.[11] It has a ring of six bells cast between 1737 and 1887.[4]
Amenities
[edit]Tichborne holds a traditional charitable festival called the Tichborne Dole.
Oh main village street, on the north side of the village is the Tichborne Arms pub
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Tichborne_Arms.jpg/220px-Tichborne_Arms.jpg)
Alresford Golf Course,[14] founded 1890, covers much of the north-east, with greens highly rated on golfing websites.[15]
Nearby attractions include the National Trust garden at Hinton Ampner.
In September is the large agricultural and funfair Alresford Show at Tichborne Park.
References
[edit]- ^ "Parish Headcounts, Area: Tichborne CP". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. 2001. Retrieved 6 October 2008.
- ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
- ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1019121)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 June 2012. Scheduled Monument.
- ^ a b Page 1908, p. 336–338.
- ^ Pevsner & Lloyd 1967, p. 622.
- ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1095933)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 June 2012. Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1095934)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 June 2012. Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1095935)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 June 2012. Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1095937)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 June 2012. Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1095938)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 June 2012. Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1095939)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 June 2012. Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1095941)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 June 2012. Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1095942)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 June 2012. Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1178396)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 June 2012. Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1178479)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 June 2012. Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1178561)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 June 2012. Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1178576)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 June 2012. Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1302365)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 June 2012. Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1302375)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 June 2012. Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1302398)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 June 2012. Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1302440)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 June 2012. Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1350430)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 June 2012. Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1350431)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 June 2012. Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1350432)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 June 2012. Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1350433)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 June 2012. Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1350468)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 June 2012. Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1392714)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
- ^ Historic England. "The Old Rectory (1095936)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
- ^ Historic England. "Chapel of St Margaret (1095940)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
- ^ Historic England. "Tichborne Park House (1302395)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
- ^ Historic England. "Sevington Farmhouse (1178670)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
- ^ a b c d Pevsner & Lloyd 1967, p. 621.
- ^ Historic England. "St Andrew's Church (1178485)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
- ^ 'The Tichborne Family Chapel', Hampshire History www.hampshire_history.com.
- ^ "Alresford Golf Club - Glorious Hampshire Chalk Downland Course". Alresford Golf Club.
- ^ "Alresford Golf Club". GolfEurope.com.
Sources
[edit]- Page, W.H., ed. (1908). A History of the County of Hampshire, Volume 3. Victoria County History. pp. 336–338.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus; Lloyd, David (1967). Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 621–622.
External links
[edit] Media related to Tichborne at Wikimedia Commons