Holy Trinity Church

Holy Trinity, Winchester
church
parish:
county:

Winchester
Hampshire

refce: HANTSLOC.t

description
The place is described in text Leland 1535-43 (perhaps)

refce: Leland 1535-43
Ther is a fair chapelle on the north side of S. Mary Abbay chirch in an area therby; to the wich men entre by a certen steppes; under it is a vault for a carnarie. One Inkepenne, a gentilman that berith in his sheld a scheker sylver and sables, was founder of it. Ther by 3. tumbes of marble of prestes custodes of this chapelle.
Minns says:- 'Carnarie,' a charnel house, where the bones of the dead were deposited.
Minns says:- Inkepenne. This family was of no small account in Winchester. Roger, John and Richard Inkpen were the founders of the Collegiate Church of Holy Trinity North of St. Mary's Abbey. Roger was Mayor of Winchester towards the end of the 12th century.

   Old Hampshire Gazetteer - JandMN: 2001