St George (Arreton)

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View from the southwest

St George , and St. George's Church is a church in the town of Arreton on the British island of Isle of Wight . To a large extent it still comes from the Norman era, with an addition in the late 13th century. Today it belongs to the Church of England in the Province of Canterbury .

Location and name

The church is on the Isle of Wight in a rural location about halfway between Newport and Shanklin . It can be reached from both cities via the A3056, which is called Main Road in the Arreton area . The church is located opposite the originating from the first half of the 17th century mansion Arreton Manor . It got its name from the patronage of St. George .

History and building history

The church mainly dates from the early Norman period in England in the 12th century , especially in the western part, including the bell tower with the sturdy buttresses . The northern extension of the nave was built a little later, around 1200, the southern extension again later, it comes from the last quarter of the 13th century. Possibly it was the result of a dispute between the Benedictine abbeys of Quarr Abbey and that of La Vieille-Lyre in Haute-Normandie over the question of which abbey the land and church belonged to. The southern chapel at the front of the nave also dates from this period. Later additions and changes were made to the windows.

Interior and outfit

View of the back of the nave

The church has no transept. In the rear part of the nave, the two parallel naves are separated by arcade arches , which in turn sit on slender columns , the bases and capitals are described as being worked with "great beauty".

The pulpit dates at least partially from the Jacobean era .

Various tombs of the Worsley Holmes family can be found in the church: the graves of Sir Henry Worsley Holmes, who died in 1811, of Sir Richard Fleming Worsley Holmes, who died in 1814, and of Sir Leonard Worsley Holmes, who died in 1825. The first two graves are works by Sir Richard Westmacott . The oldest tomb, however, dates from the early 15th century, here Henry Hawls was buried, the plate is, often in England for this time, made of brass as bream .

literature

  • Peter Sager: South England - from Kent to Cornwall , 5th edition, DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 1977, ISBN 3770107446
  • Nikolaus Pevsner , David Lloyd: The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight , Penguin Books, Middlesex, England 1967

Web links

Commons : St George's Church, Arreton  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Sager: South England - from Kent to Cornwall , p. 343.
  2. ^ Nicolas Pevsner, David Lloyd: The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight , p. 730.
  3. ^ Nicolas Pevsner, David Lloyd: The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight , p. 731.
  4. ^ Nicolas Pevsner, David Lloyd: The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight , p. 731.

Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 41 ″  N , 1 ° 14 ′ 42 ″  W.