Little Somborne, All Saints’ church This small, remote church is almost certainly one of the two churches in Somborne mentioned in Domesday. It has plastered flint walls with a small wooden bell-turret. It retains a number of Late Saxon features including the characteristic lesene or pilaster strip and a double-splayed window on the north wall,…

St Peter, St Mary Bourne Postcode: SP11 6BL Grid Ref: SU422503 CHR No: 641158   Photo 1: Exterior of St Peter’s, St Mary Bourne St Peter’s church is a Grade 1 listed building. It consists of a chancel with a wide Norman chancel arch, nave with later aisles, western tower and south porch. There are…

St Maurice, Winchester This was an important medieval parish church with a central position on the High St, close to the cathedral. It may have served as a gate chapel to the New Minster precinct. It was demolished in 1840, apart from the tower, which was then heavily repaired. A new church was built, which…

St John the Baptist, North Baddesley The church is located on a small rise some distance from the main village. It has associations with the Knights Hospitallers, whose Preceptory was located opposite on the site of what is now an 18th century manor house. The Hopitallers link is evidenced by the presence of their crosses…

St Peter, Goodworth Clatford – Second World War Graffiti Perhaps even more significant than the early examples of graffiti however, are the pencil drawings and inscriptions left within the clergy vestry by the young men who acted as organ blowers, pumping the bellows, at the time of the second world war. There is a huge…

All Saints’ Church, Hursley Post code: SO21 2JB OS Grid Ref: SU 427 252 CoE CHR No: 641340  Photo 1 – All Saints, Hursley. The church is best known for its associations with John Keble, the pioneer leader of the Oxford Movement. It was designed for him by JP Harrison, and built in 1846-8, in…

St James Without-the-Priory Gate, Southwick  Photo 1 – St James, Southwick. Members of the Hampshire Medieval Graffiti Project visited St James church, Southwick on 3rd May  2019 to locate, photograph and record the historical graffiti there. The church is described as a “Peculiar”, meaning it is privately owned and exempt from the jurisdiction of the…

St Mary, Upton Grey OS Grid Ref: SU 697 483 Postcode: RG25 2RB CoE CHR No: 641133  Photo 1 – St Mary’s Church, Upton Grey. The church is situated to the north of the village centre, close to where the Roman road from Chichester to Silchester ran through the parish. It sits on a rise…

St James, Bramley St James’ church has a plain, brick built, exterior. The earliest parts date from around 1180 as shown by Norman windows. There is a later, Elizabethan, window in the nave and a brick tower, of 1636-40, on the west side. The porch dates from 1806. The church was ‘restored’ in the 19th…

St Nicholas, North Stoneham St Nicholas is “An intriguing and problematical building…”. The church was rebuilt at some time between 1590 and 1610 with older features, possibly from other buildings, incorporated; it was restored in 1826 and again later in the 19th Century. (The Buildings of England: Hampshire & the Isle of Wight, 1985) Photographs,…