Odiham,
Hampshire - All Saints 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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A large flint church,
with a brick tower embraced. The tower is of the C17, English bond, with
angle pilasters and the bell openings surrounded by rustication and
flanked by pilasters (Ionic capitals); battlements. |
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The aisles have
few and C19 windows. Tower doorway 1897. |
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Perp N porch entrance, pretty Perp N doorway with
leaf in the spandrels. |
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Both the
arcades are high and Late Perp, but they differ considerably. First S,
four bays, the slender piers of the often-seen section of four shafts and
four diagonal hollows. Moulded arches. Latest perp the N arcade of three
bays with octagonal piers, concave-sided capitals and nearly round
double-chamfered arches. |
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The
two-bay arcades to the chancel chapels are early C13. Round, short piers,
octagonal abaci, single-chamfered arches.
West galleries. 1632, with bulgy columns and sturdy balusters.
In the
nave W wall the tower arch is early C13, see the imposts and the one
slight chamfer. ... |
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Pulpit. 1634. Of the
Basingstoke type. Arched upper panels with flower vases, rectangular lower
strapwork panels.
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In the churchyard outside the
north wall are two gravestones to French prisoners from the Napoleonic
wars, one in English, the other in French. |
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The Pest House on the southern
edge of the churchyard is from about 1625. Intended for sufferers of
infectious diseases. From about 1780-1930 it was used to house indigent
parishioners. More
information at the website of the Odiham
Society. |
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See also Odiham Castle and Odiham
Houses
Map
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