| Whitchurch,
Hampshire - All Hallows Church 13th century Click on photos to enlarge. |
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| Externally all of 1866 (by Ferrey), except for the lower part of the W tower, which is dated 1716 and has a horizontally placed, keyed-in oval window above the doorway. Plate tracery, also lancets, also bar tracery. The tower carries a shingled broach-spire. | ||||
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| The
tower arch is probably early C13, but altered. But the S arcade is genuine
C13 work. Three bays, round piers, round abaci, single-chamfered arches. The
N arcade is patently Perp. The piers have the four-shafts-and-four-hollows
section and the arches three hollow chamfers. The E bays on both sides are
of 1866. So is the chancel. Font. Octagonal, Perp, with quatrefoils (Tudor). |
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| Monuments. First of all an extremely interesting Anglo-Saxon gravestone, the front like that of a Roman gravestone of the Legions. Sir Thomas Kendrick dates it mid C9. The stone has an arched top and the front an arched recess in which is the demi-figure of Christ. The inscription runs along the top in Roman letters: Hic Corpus Frithburgae requiescit in pacem sepultum. ... (Here the body of Frithburge reposes buried in peace.) A notice in the church by the stone explains that it shows Jesus holding a book in his left hand while his right hand is raised in blessing (centrally on his chest). The stone was found embedded in the north wall during restoration in 1868. | ||||
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| Effigies of
Thomas Brooke, died 1612, and his wife Susan (née
Foster). Carved in chalk and showing traces of paint. |
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More about the
church in the Parish Magazine |
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