Little Somborne

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Little Somborne, Hampshire - All Saints Church 11th century Click on photos to enlarge Notes in italics from Hampshire and the Isle of Wight by Nikolaus Pevsner and David Lloyd (1967) Yale University Press, New Haven and London.
	Nave and chancel in one and bell-turret.
		The nave is Saxon, see the one lesene on the N side and a small fragment of another on the S side, and also the W quoins of long-and-short work.
	Plain Late Norman S doorway with one slight continuous chamfer.
	Traces of a blocked N doorway.

		Several altered Norman windows.
		Late Norman also the blocked former chancel arch with trumpet-scallop capitals. Above this low former chancel in the E wall two lancets.
	To the S of the chancel arch a re-set Norman window or, according to the VCH, an image niche.
	E wall outside
	Grave of famous aviator - Thomas Sopwith