Abbotts Ann, Hampshire - St Mary Church
1716
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. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
St Mary. 1716. (Built by
Thomas 'Diamond' Pitt, East India merchant and Lord Chatham's grandfather).
Light brick and stone. The W tower has Victorian pinnacles. Also the
easternmost of the round-arched windows have minimum Victorian tracery,
just enough to make an honest church of Abbotts Ann. W doorway with a bold
segmental hood, W window and bell-openings segment-headed.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Inside,
a coved ceiling and plenty of original furnishings. ... Pulpit, box pews,
west gallery on sturdy Tuscan columns.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
More
MAIDEN GARLANDS than in any other church. They were funerary memorials
hung up at the death of maidens.
More details in the right-hand picture and at
the village website.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Rectory.
Probably also of c.1716. Five bays, two storeys, chequer brick, hipped
roof. The Victorian porch hides the fact that l. and r. of the original
doorway were the typical narrow windows of the Queen Anne style.
|
|
Map
Village website
|