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St Mary

St Mary

Winchfield

Hampshire

Church of St Mary 24.11.61 - I C12, C15, and mid C19

Architectural Features

Norman church of nave, chancel and western tower (of same width as the nave), with an added north aisle together with a small vestry on the north-east corner (restoration of 1850 by Woodyer ). The chancel has on each side 2 deeply-splayed windows with zig-zag ornament surrounds

The main feature comprises 3 exceptionally decorated Norman arches: the narrow chancel arch has a series of decorative motifs, including zig-zags, and rests on attached columns: the tower arch has mouldings and a plainer treatment of attached columns: the south doorway is very ornate, with zig-zag stages and acanthus motifs, again resting on attached columns

The south porch is C15

Furniture includes a Norman font, a Jacobean pulpit, C18 altar rails, and several wall monuments

Externally, there is a red tile roof, flint walling with stone quoins, a cement finish to the lower part of the massive tower, which is surmounted by a restoration rubble stone bell stage having round-arched coupled openings and a pyramid roof.