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- ↑ W.D. Macray, Calendar of Charters and Documents relating to Selborne and its Priory, (Simpkin and Co. Limited, London/Warren and Son, Winchester 1891 and 1894), First Series and Second Series (Internet Archive).
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Baker, David and contributors 2014. Selborne Priory: Excavations 1953-71. Hampshire Field club Monograph 12, 248pp Abstract: The priory of Selborne in Hampshire was founded in 1233 for Augustinian canons by Peter des Roches, Bishop of Winchester, and dissolved in 1486 by his successor William Waynflete. A chantry chapel survived until about 1550. Excavations between 1953 and 1971, mostly by local volunteers, were stimulated by Gilbert White’s Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne (1789), but early work was confused by an assumption that the church lay north rather than south of the cloister. The cruciform church was largely completed by the mid-13th century: it had a long unaisled nave, transepts built with fully developed eastern chapels and an unextended presbytery. The west and north claustral ranges had undercrofts of seven bays with central free-standing piers. A two-bay chapter house was divided by an arcade; further north, the east range undercroft contained a square vaulted warming house or inner parlour. Graffiti on reused ashlar blocks in the drain for the canons’ latrine depicted a man, a horse and a crucifixion. Thirteen burials were found in four locations, six in stone coffins. Building materials include a fine foliate decorated roof boss from the presbytery, a quantity of mid-13th century grisaille glass, lead cames and window ties. A major collection of decorated medieval floor tiles is placed within Hampshire and wider contexts. Registered finds were mostly for domestic use rather than religious activity. 25 coins, tokens and jettons are reported. Eleven groups of ceramic wares include 15th and 16th century vessels for distillation and other alchemic practices already reported elsewhere. Documentary evidence is discussed including hitherto unpublished building repair accounts for the chantry in 1513–14. Reconstructions of the buildings are proposed in the wider context of Augustinian planning and by comparison with nearby contemporary Titchfield Abbey. Appendices note the excavation strategies, coffin lids at the parish church of St Mary, a 1490 inventory of church goods at the priory, and small scale excavations undertaken about 1900.
