Wherwell, Hampshire - St Peter and Holy Cross
Church
19th century
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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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| 1856-8 by Woodyer. Lively, rather Scandinavian bell-turret with spire. The nave roof sweeps down with a break into the aisle roof. On the W front a semicircular stair-turret. The window surrounds in the aisles are deliberately not archaeologically correct, and in the chancel the windows themselves carry no authority. | ||||
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| Nave looking west and east. The bell-turret stands inside not on wooden posts but on two slim stone piers which do not try to keep a modus vivendi with the arcade piers. | ||||
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| Views into chancel and out of chancel | ||||
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| Chancel - north wall and south wall | ||||
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Nun, early C15, in an ample mantle Two small early C14 stone reliefs: The Harrowing of Hell, and Noli me tangere |
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| Sir Owen West, died 1551. Tomb-chest with sparse strapwork. The inscription is still in black-letter. | ||||
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| Mausoleum of the Iremonger family. Victorian. Large, of shrine-type, and incorporating monster heads from the corbel table of the medieval church. | ||||
| More about the church at the Wherwell Village Website | ||||
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