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St Hubert

Finchdean, Hampshire

A Saxo-Norman church probably dating from the C10 or earlier with a chancel added in the C12 or C13, the nave widened on the south side in the early C16

Architectural Features

The north side of the nave has two paired wooden windows with leaded lights and between them is a small Norman round-headed window

At the east end is a narrow blocked round-headed Norman doorway

Nave fittings include a C14 octagonal font with quatrefoil panels with shields and emblems on a stem with trefoil panels, pews with bench ends rising to simple circular finials, C18 box pews and a double-decker C17 pulpit with a C18 tester

On the wall west of the pulpit are painted texts of two periods, now obscured

There is a medieval piscina on the east wall and the splays of the east window have C14 painted figures of St Peter and St Paul, and two angels in the arch soffit

A large two-tier wall painting on the north wall, dated to around 1330 depicts the life of St John the Baptist

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