Boarhunt,
Hampshire - St Nicholas Church
11th Century
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A Saxon
church dated c.1064, consisting of nave and chancel. Windows are mostly
Early English lancet windows of 1200s. Victorian bell-turret.
Saxon stone string
course and lesene on east wall.
Blocked Saxon window in
chancel north side, and blocked Saxon doorway in nave north side. The
window opening is a stone slab with a cable moulding, set in a
double-splayed frame.
Blocked Saxon
doorway in chancel south side.
Tudor window in
nave south side.
Plain
unmoulded Saxon chancel arch, but with a raised band running above it.
Recesses probably of the 1200s either side of the
arch and continuing into the nave walls, possibly for side altars. (On
south side, cut away by later Tudor window).