. A history of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight . ave is old, with a single thickness of oakboarding nailed to horizontal battens and retainingits old wood-cased lock and wrought-iron straphinges. Externally against the south door is part of a14th-century coffin slab with a cross, and in the naveis another one complete, but much plainer. The most interesting feature of the church is thewall painting, an unusually large amount of what 86 Chan. Inq. 11 Edw. I, file 35,no. 4. 87 Ibid. 42 Hen. Ill, file 11, no. 12. 88 Chart. (B. M.) Campb. v, 3. 89 Chan. Inq. 11 Edw. I, file 35,no. 4. 90
. A history of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight . ave is old, with a single thickness of oakboarding nailed to horizontal battens and retainingits old wood-cased lock and wrought-iron straphinges. Externally against the south door is part of a14th-century coffin slab with a cross, and in the naveis another one complete, but much plainer. The most interesting feature of the church is thewall painting, an unusually large amount of what 86 Chan. Inq. 11 Edw. I, file 35,no. 4. 87 Ibid. 42 Hen. Ill, file 11, no. 12. 88 Chart. (B. M.) Campb. v, 3. 89 Chan. Inq. 11 Edw. I, file 35,no. 4. 90 Cat. Pat. 1292-1301, p. 239. 91 About 1588 Henry Giffard, ThomasBedforde, underwoodwardand otherswere accused of having unlawfully cutdown and converted to their own usetimber trees of oak in Dunwood in the 538 queens manor of Longstock, of whichshe was seised in right of the Duchy ofLancaster (Duchy of Lane. Plead, cxlii,G. no. 12). 92 Hants Dir. 1880. 93 Ibid. 1898. 91 Ex inform. Mr. E. C. Simson. 95 Ibid. East Wellow Church : The East Window. East Wellow Church : Nave looking East THORNGATE HUNDRED EAST WELLOW seems to be the 13th-century decoration some places it is overlaid with 17th-century east window is elaborately decorated. The reararch is painted with masonry patterns, the blocksbeing grained to represent marble in red andyellow alternately. Over the heads of the lightsappear two crowned and bearded heads on abackground of stars and leaves in yellow, and thereare traces of painting in the splays, perhaps a bishopon the south side, the whole having been framedwith a running foliage pattern in dark red. Thewall surface around is covered with a masonry patternof oblong stones, each inclosing a spray with a redcinquefoil or a yellow lily. On the south wall of the chancel, near the eastangle, is a painting of the martyrdom of St. Thomas,and in the east splay of the north-east window aretraces of a tall crowned figure. The figures ofthe knights are s
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