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Tisbury in Wilts County England History and GeographyTISBURY, a parish in the hundred of DUNWORTH, county of WILTS, 3½ miles (S.E.) from Hindon, containing, with the tything of Chicksgrove with Staple, 2122 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £18. 10. 10., and in the patronage of Mrs. R. Prevost. The church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, is a large structure, in the best style of Norman architecture, and contains numerous monuments of the Arundels of Wardour. There is a place of worship for Independents. Alice Combes, in 1740, bequeathed £400, directing the interest to be applied in teaching poor children. Wardour castle, the seat of the noble family of Arundel, is a magnificent mansion, erected between the years 1776 and 1784, from a design by Mr. Paine: it is built of freestone, and consists of a centre and two wings, projecting on the north side in a curvilinear form. About a mile from it are the ruins of the ancient castle, the origin of which is very remote: from the time of Edward III., downwards, it was successively the seat of the families of St. Martin, Lovel, Touchet, Audley, Willoughby de Broke, and, lastly, of Sir John Arundel, whose son Thomas was created Lord Arundel of Wardour, by James I. In the history of this baronial castle no event of importance occurs until the time of Charles I., when it was besieged by a detachment of the parliamentarian army, under Sir Edward Hungerford. Lord Arundel being then at Oxford, attending the king, the castle was left in the custody of his wife, the Lady Blanch Arundel, who, with a garrison of only twenty-five men, held out against a bombardment for five days, at the end of which, on May 8th, 1643, she surrendered upon honourable terms, which, however, were not punctually kept by the captors. The castle was then garrisoned for the parliament, and placed under the command of the celebrated Edmund Ludlow. The latter, being in turn besieged in it, in the course of the same summer, by the royalists, under Lord Arundel and Sir Francis Doddington, made an obstinate resistance for several weeks, but was at last compelled to deliver up the fortress to the besiegers, who, according to Ludlow's account, in his own memoirs, observed the terms of capitulation no better than the parliamentarians had done. Owing to the injury which the castle sustained in these two sieges, especially the latter, it thenceforward ceased to be used, either as a fortress, or as a residence. The ruins are situated beneath a grand amphitheatrical hill clothed with wood: the principal are those of a sexagonal court, which formed the centre of the ancient structure, and in which is a very deep well, sunk by Ludlow, to supply the garrison with water during the siege. Almost contiguous are the remains of the mansion, which was occupied by the family, after the destruction of the castle, until their removal to their present residence. In the ancient castle, Sir Nicholas Hyde, Chief Justice of the King's Bench and Lord Treasurer, in the reign of James I., was born, about 1570; and about the same period, Sir John Davies, eminent as a lawyer, a poet, and a political writer, was born at the hamlet of Chisgrove, in this parish. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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