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Winchester, Hampshire - St Bartholomew Church
and Hyde Abbey Gateway

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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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St Bartholomew, King Alfred Place, off Hyde Street. The former village church of Hyde. Low W tower with low pyramid roof. Chequer flint and stone. The church is of nave, N aisle, and chancel. ... In the nave S wall some single-light windows of c.1300 ...  

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The N side of the church apparently of 1879-80, with a number of cross-gables. ...
The chancel was rebuilt in 1857-9 by Colson. ... The vestry has an E window, Early English (shafted) and re-set.

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The nave has Norman masonry and a Norman S doorway. Two orders of columns with big ornamental capitals probably of c.1130. Round arch with zigzag. Billet hood-mould. Tympanum with sunk triangles, all re-tooled. ... The N arcade is Norman too, but nearly entirely Victorian. 

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Chancel screen. Pulpit. Chancel from vestry. East window.

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Looking west from chancel. Tower arch. North aisle.

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Opposite the church is the Hyde Abbey Gateway, the only building that remains of the Hyde Abbey, the Benedictine nunnery founded in 965 as the New Minster and moved to Hyde in 1110. The gateway is Perp. Four-centred arch of many fine mouldings.

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To the outside also a much plainer pedestrian entrance. An adjoining shed has Norman masonry.   

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