Mattingley Church, Hampshire 15th Century |
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| Click photos below to enlarge. 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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| Timber-framed throughout and late medieval (i.e. towards end of 15th century). Nave and aisles, chancel, shingled bell-turret. The aisles are of 1867, and at that time much was restored too. The infilling between the timbers is of brick-nogging (in herringbone fashion with bricks formed as parallelograms). | ||||
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| The N porch, at the W end of the N aisle, is original too, though partly renewed. | ||||
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| Inside, the arcade piers show clearly that they were originally wall-posts of an aisleless nave. In the chancel the wall-posts are in order. Their mouldings are Perp. The roof has tie-beams, collar-beams, and one tier of wind-braces. | ||||
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| The chancel is in a good state and has a straight-headed five-light E window (in memory of Viscount Eversley, Lord of the Manor in the later 19th century). Panelling in the altar area; C17. | ||||
| "The Church has no patron saint - possibly because the original building on the site was, to start with, a moot hall - that is, a place where meetings were held. On the other hand it may have been because it was, in the early days, a "chapel of ease" to the Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels, Heckfield." (From Parish of Mattingley website) | ||||
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