CHILTON CANDOVER
Candevre (xi cent.); Candovere (xiii cent.);
Chilton, Chilternecandevre (xiv cent.); Chylton
Candevour (xvi cent.).
Chilton Candover is a parish of 1,451 acres. The
country in the north consists of open down and the
ground here reaches a height of 39 ft. above the
ordnance datum. The village is situated on the main
road from Basingstoke to Winchester, and consists of a
few scattered houses built of brick and roofed with
slate and tiles. To the north lies a churchyard inclosed by a flint stone wall, now abandoned and overgrown with weeds. The old church of St. Nicholas, (fn. 1)
originally situated in it, having been pulled down in
1876, nothing now remains but the graves and tombstones. The bourne takes its rise here at some
springs and ponds near the rectory and flows thence
in a south-westerly direction to Brown Candover.
Near the sources of this stream is a fine avenue of yew
trees, half a mile in length and of some antiquity,
which leads south-east to the road to Preston Candover. Afterwards this avenue, though no longer
shaded by yew, continues towards Juniper Hill.
At Stanchester Field, one of the few 'chesters' in
Hampshire, foundations of a Roman villa have been
discovered. (fn. 2)
The soil is chalky loam and gravel, the subsoil chalk
and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, turnips and
oats.
Among place-names occurring in an early 17th-century deed of sale are the following:—'The
Breaches, Chilton Wood, Dundridge, Shilton Warren
and South Downs.' (fn. 3) 'The Breaches' is preserved in
Breach Farm and Breach Cottages, and Chilton Wood
and Dundridge Copse still retain their old names.
Manor
In 1086 the manor of CHILTON
CANDOVER was held of the Bishop of
Winchester by Richer, (fn. 4) who is generally
identified with Richer de Andely, ancestor of the family
of Daundely whose name so long flourished in the
parish. (fn. 5) In the middle of the 12th century Godfrey de
Andely (Daundely) was holding three knights' fees of the
bishop, (fn. 6) and he was succeeded by his son Walter, who
was holding four fees in 1166. (fn. 7) It was probably this
Walter who granted his land between the two
'Buggenores' to the Hospitallers, and his grant was
confirmed by his son and successor of the same name.
In 1280 Robert Daundely being summoned before
the king to show by what warrant he claimed the
return of royal writs and the right to pillory and the
fines arising from the breaches of the assize of bread
and ale in Chilton Candover, denied that he had
ever exercised the first privilege, but asserted the
other liberties belonging to the hundred of Mainsborough, which he held of the king by the rent of
5s., and the case was accordingly dismissed. (fn. 8) Robert
was succeeded by John Daundely, who, as patron of
the church, presented a rector between 1282 and
1304. (fn. 9) In 1316 the manor of Chilton Candover
belonged to Roger Daundely. (fn. 10) In 1346 Philip
Daundely held one fee in Chilton Candover, which
formerly belonged to John Daundely, (fn. 11) and this same
Philip was knight of the shire some nine years later. (fn. 12)
In 1372 the manor of Chilton Candover was settled
on Nicholas Bayntun, lord of Falstone (co. Wilts.)
and Joan his wife in fee-tail, (fn. 13) and from the fact that
in default of heirs of Nicholas and Joan the property
was to pass to the right heirs of Joan it seems probable that Joan was the heiress of the Daundely
family. In 1401, on the marriage of their son
Nicholas, the manor with Week (Daundely) in St.
Mary Bourne was settled on him with remainder to
his heirs. (fn. 14) He died in 1421, and John his son and
heir succeeded; (fn. 15) the latter, however, in 1429,
conveyed the manor to his mother Joan for life on
her second marriage with William Whapplode of
Chalfont (fn. 16) (co. Bucks.). Sir
John Bayntun the grandson
of Joan (fn. 17) died seised of the
manor in 1465, leaving as his
heir a son Robert, (fn. 18) who,
having taken up arms for
Henry VI, was taken prisoner
at the battle of Tewkesbury
and attainted. (fn. 19) Chilton Candover consequently escheated
to Edward IV, who granted
it in tail-male to John Cheyne
in 1475. (fn. 20) Ten years later
George Nevill for his good
services against the rebels obtained a similar grant
from Richard III. (fn. 21) The manor, however, was subsequently recovered by the Bayntun family, John
Bayntun the son and heir of Robert obtaining a
reversal of his father's attainder by Act of Parliament
in 1504. (fn. 22) This John succeeded to Bromham (co.
Wilts.) as kinsman and heir of Richard Beauchamp
Lord St. Amand in 1508, (fn. 23) and died in 1516 and
was buried in Bromham Church. (fn. 24) He was succeeded by his son Sir Edward Bayntun, who rose in
favour at the court of Henry VIII and was vicechamberlain to three of his queens. (fn. 25) Sir Edward
married as his second wife a certain Isabel, (fn. 26) and in
1540 Chilton Candover was settled upon them
for life with remainder to their eldest son Henry
Bayntun in tail-male. Isabel survived her husband,
who died in 1544, (fn. 27) and it would seem married
afterwards Sir James Stumpe, for in 1562 Sir
James Stumpe and Isabel his wife sold the manor
to John Fyssher in return for an annuity of £12 to
Isabel; (fn. 28) Henry Bayntun and his younger brother
Francis having two years previously surrendered their
reversionary right for the sum of £200. (fn. 29) The desolation (fn. 30) of Chilton Candover apparently dates from
this time. Norden, writing in 1595, declared that
'One Fisher, deceased, depopulated this place, extirping
the inhabitants pulling downe the howses, onlie remayneth the churche and a ferme.' On the death of
John Fyssher in 1591, his son William succeeded to
the manor (fn. 31) in accordance with a settlement of 1567, (fn. 32)
and continued in possession until 1618, (fn. 33) when he
sold it to Sir Edward Villiers. (fn. 34) In 1620 William
Rolfe purchased the estate from Sir Edward Villiers, (fn. 35)
but sold it eleven years later to Edmund Clarke, (fn. 36)
who died in 1633, leaving a son and heir Edmund. (fn. 37)
There is a blank in the history of the manor from
this date till 1662, when Sir Henry Worsley, bart.,
presented to the church of Chilton Candover, as lord
of the manor. (fn. 38) He died in 1666 and was succeeded
by his son Sir Robert Worsley, bart., (fn. 39) who died in
1676, having by his will dated 12 December 1675
directed that 'his charities to the poor of Chilton,
where he then lived and in the Isle of Wight should
be continued during his son's minority, meaning his
constant weekly alms at his door which amounted to
£50 yearly.' (fn. 40) This son, the last Sir Robert Worsley,
bart., died without male issue in 1747, (fn. 41) and the
manor then passed in accordance with his will, dated
4 June 1746, to his grandson Robert Lord Carteret,
afterwards Earl Granville, son of his only surviving
daughter Frances. (fn. 42) Earl Granville died without
issue in 1776, (fn. 43) having left the manor by will dated
13 December 1771 to his nephew Henry Frederick
Thynne, (fn. 44) who assumed the name of Carteret and was
on 20 January 1784 created Lord Carteret of Hawnes
(co. Beds. (fn. 45) ). Lord Carteret dealt with Chilton Candover by recovery in I795, (fn. 46) and died unmarried in
1816. It was acquired in 1818 by Alexander
Baring, who was created Lord Ashburton in 1835,
and it has remained in his family till the present day,
Francis Denzil Edward Baring, Lord Ashburton,
being the present lord of the manor.
Bayntun. Sable a bend indented argent.
Advowson
The first mention of the church
of Chilton Candover is in 1291,
when it was valued at £9 a year. (fn. 47)
The lords of the manor presented the rectors until
1847, (fn. 48) when the living was annexed to that of
Brown Candover.' (fn. 49) The registers are kept at Brown
Candover.
The first register book begins in 1695, and the
entries for baptisms, marriages, and burials, which are
all entered as they occurred without being tabulated,
finish in 1752. Another book for burials in woollen—1706 to 1741; a third book in which the entries
are mixed as in the first, 1742 to 1759 5 and a fourth
in which the entries are tabulated—baptisms, 1772
to 1810; marriages, 1681 to 1795; burials, 1677 to
1812.
Carteret, Earl Granville. Gules a fesse indented of four points argent.
Baring, Lord Ash-burton. Azure a fesse or and a bear's head in the chief with a golden muzzle and ring.