Hampshire Treasures

Volume 2 ( Basingstoke and Deane)

Page 1 - Ashmansworth

The Manor of Ashmansworth was granted as part of Whitchurch to the church of Winchester for maintaining the monks. Although it was appropriated by the Bishop of Winchester it was restored to the church in 909. By the thirteenth century, Ashmansworth was entirley in the bishop's hand and remained so until 1649 when it was sold to Obadiah Sedgewick. In 1660 the manor returned the bishop, and in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century was sold to the Herbert family, the Earls of Carnarvon.

The little church of St. James at Ashmansworth is believed to stand on the site of an earlier Saxon church. Both the chancel and the nave of the present church were built in the twelth century, the roof of the nave is over six hundred years old and the curious moulded beams with their carved bosses are said to have been brought from Winchester Cathedral. Wall paintings are extensive, the earliest around the chancel arch are of the thirteenth century and devoted to the life of Christ. Later fifteenth and seventeenth century paintings are on the north and south walls of the nave.

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