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St Thomas The Apostle

Lymington, Hampshire

C13 origins (archaeological evidence in E and W ends of church)

Architectural Features

Moulded S doorway with C17 style round-headed panelled door

The N chapel has angle buttresses and two tall C14 Decorated N windows, and an E window with intersecting tracery

The original W wall (now internal)includes a C13 lancet window and a c1200 W respond with a base with spurs

C13 trefoil-headed piscina with short squat shafts in S wall of chancel

Mid C13 N doorway in N transept, now leading to the 1931 sacristy

Font of 1873 with an octagonal stone bowl carved with trefoil-headed motifs, circular stem

An C18 baluster font has been preserved

Polygonal timber pulpit of 1911, designed by J Bevir

Numerous hatchments and wall monuments, including a Rysbrack bust commemorating Charles Colebourn, d1747, and a monument to Captain Josias Rogers, d1795, by Bacon Senr

Pevsner describes the relief figure of a woman as 'exquisite'. Brass eagle lectern

Stained glass includes an E window by the Hardman Company

Impressive and unusual C17 Flemish pictorial window re-sited in the N gallery

Royal Arms erected on W gallery in 1824 are probably an adaptation of C17 Royal Arms

SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE: Listed at II* for exceptional interest as a church preserving archaeological evidence of its C13 origins, a good early C14 chapel with c1500 roof

a C17 tower and 3 classical galleries of the late C18 and C19

Many monuments

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