Old Hampshire Mapped
Leland's Hampshire 1635-43
Transcription (6)Itchin, River
Alresford River
St Cross
St Elizabeth's College
St Stephen's Chapel
The water that cummith from Wolvesey and the Close goith hard by the este side of the college, and so toward Saynct Crosse.
The college of S. Elizabeth of Hungarie, made by Pontissera Bisshop of Winchester, lyith strait est apon the new college: and ther is but a litle narow causey betwixt them. The mayne arme and streame of Alsford water devidid a litle above the college into 2. armes rennith on each side of the college.
Minns:- St. Elizabeth's College, founded 1301, granted to Sir Thomas Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, was pulled down to the ground, 1547. The site of the buildings is distinctly visible in a dry summer.
Withyn these 2. armes not far fro the very college chirch of S. Elizabeth is a chapel of S. Stephan.
Ther was an hospitale for poore folkes a very litle without the Kinges Gate maynteinid by the monkes of S. Swithunes now suspressid.
There hath been withyn the town waulles a ... paroche chirches. Bisshop Fox suppressid dyverse, of the[m, un]iting the people of them to ma[intain the ot]her yet standing: and to make [som honest] lyving onto the incumbent. [Ther be yet] ... paroche chirches [standing within the waulles] of Win[chester.]
Minns:- If Winchester abounds in churches now it might in early days have been called a 'city of churches.' Dr Milner computes the number in Henry I.'s reign at 92, including 12 belonging to religious communities.
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