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Martyr Worthy,  Hampshire  -  St Swithun Church

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Notes in italics from Hampshire and the Isle of Wight by Nikolaus Pevsner and David Lloyd (1967) Yale University Press, New Haven and London.
 

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Nave and chancel with apse. Bell-turret of 1871. The nave is Late Norman (i.e. late 1100s), see the doorways. The N doorway has one order of columns, and zig-zag at r. angles to the wall, the S doorway has nutmeg.

    
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The Norman-looking apse is of 1865.  Perp W window. 

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