SHERBORNE (ST-JOHN), a parish in the hundred
of BASINGSTOKE, Basingstoke division of the
county of SOUTHAMPTON, 2 miles (N. N. W.) from Basingstoke,
containing 596 inhabitants. The living comprises
a sinecure rectory and a vicarage, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Winchester, the former rated
in the king's books at £9. 8. If., endowed with £200
private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the
patronage of William L.W. Chute, Esq., and the latter
rated at £ 7, and in the patronage of the Rector. The
church is dedicated to St. Andrew. There is a private
chapel at the Vine, containing a tomb in memory of
Chaloner Chute, Esq., Speaker of the House of Commons
in Richard Cromwell's parliament, and the
purchaser of this noble mansion, which was erected in
the reign of Henry VIII., by the first Lord Sandys. A
school for the instruction of upwards of one hundred
children of both sexes is liberally supported by Mrs,
Chute and Miss Wiggatt.