All Saints Church (Little Somborne)
Coordinates: 51 ° 5 ′ 30.8 " N , 1 ° 27 ′ 20.5" W.
The All Saints Church in Little Somborne is a redundant church building of the Anglican Church in the hamlet of Little Somborne in Hampshire , England . It was classified as a Grade II * Listed Building by English Heritage on May 29, 1957 , and is maintained by the Churches Conservation Trust . The church is about seven kilometers southeast of Stockbridge , on the east side of the A3057 highway.
history
The All Saints Church has its origins in Anglo-Saxon times and is recorded in the Domesday Book . The original building has a nave and chancel , but in 1170 the sanctuary was removed and extends the nave to the east. A very small sanctuary was then added to the east. It was removed in the 17th century and the arch was filled with a wall with a window inserted into it.
architecture
The church is built of broken flint , the walls are mortared and whitewashed with paint. The roof is covered with tiles. The floor plan consists of a one-piece nave and chancel, the belfry at its western end is paneled. At the eastern end, within the former arch of the chancel, there is a window with three rectangular window openings, above which two lancet windows are let into the wall. In the north wall to the chancel, a narrow window from the twelfth century has been preserved, to the west of which there is a door from the same period that is now walled up. Also in the northern wall is a section with pilasters in the Anglo-Saxon style of Binstead on the Isle of Wight . In the south wall of the chancel there is a lancet window from the 13th century and two rectangular windows with narrow openings to the west. In between is the entrance with a round archway in Norman style . The western window dates from the 14th century and has two openings with a three-leaf and a four-leaf above it.
The plaster was removed from the walls inside the building and the floor was partially replaced with stone slabs. On the south side of the pulpit arch is a small wall niche with a round arch. The baptismal font dates from the 19th century.
Churchyard
In the churchyard is the grave of Thomas Sopwith , an aviation pioneer who developed the Sopwith Camel and died in 1989.
See also
Web links
- All Saints, Little Somborne. ( Memento of January 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Description of the story
- Little Somborne, Hampshire - All Saints Church ( Memento January 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Collection of detailed photographs
- Hampshire Churches: All Saints Little Somborne
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d All Saints Church, Little Somborne ( English ) In: Heritage Gateway website . Heritage Gateway ( English Heritage , Institute of Historic Building Conservation and ALGAO: England ). 2006. Retrieved April 10, 2011.
- ^ A b c All Saints' Church, Little Somborne, Hampshire ( English ) Churches Conservation Trust . Retrieved April 10, 2011.
- ^ William Page : Parishes: Little Sombourne ( English ) In: A History of the County of Hampshire . University of London & History of Parliament Trust. Pp. 480-482. 1911. Retrieved April 10, 2011.