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St John

Hursley

Hampshire

C12 church with C14, C18 and C20 alterations

Architectural Features

Flint with stone dressings, rendered, old plain tile roof

Norman church of chancel and nave c1130-60, C14 rebuilding to W, W bellcote and c1910 porch

2 similar windows to N and one to S. On N wall C16 small stone plaque

Nave N wall has similar C18 NE window, signs of windows to W, central C16 stepped buttress and C18 NW corner buttress

Inside it is Norman round-headed doorway with chamfered abaci, hood mould on radially set grotesque head stops, and C16 studded planked door with strap hinges and old lock

To W tablet 1769 to Richard Wooley and C14 stepped buttress repaired C18

W end has S of centre C14 stepped buttress, in centre C14 trefoiled window with hood mould, over small rectangular light, below blocked W door

On roof square sectioned weatherboarded bellcote with hipped roof, containing 3 bells: mediaeval inscribed 'In honore Tri', late C15 by William Hasylwood inscribed 'Sancta Rafael ora pro nobis', and 1603

On E wall monuments: 1627 to John St John & family, of inscription panel in frame with each side Corinthian column, below panel of son and wife with infant, above crest

On S wall monument 1600 to William St John, large stone tomb chest with 4 panels containing shields

C17 altar rails with turned balustrades and moulded hand rail

C15 2-bay barrel-vaulted roof with S braces on to stone corbels, central ridge timber removed

In nave C18 reading desk and in NW early C18 pulpit and tester

Floor slab C17 to Thomas Childes

C15 king post 3 bays of 4 survive with W bay removed for large timber post to support bellcote which also support roof

On E posts 2 solid hatchments to St John family

C18 heavy baluster font

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