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The village of Brighstone is a little inland from the island’s SW coast and just to the S of the lateral chalk ridge. The church consists of a W tower, a nave, a N and S aisles, a S porch, a chancel, and a chapel to the S of the chancel (Page 1912, 213). The W tower is of uncertain date, the lower part may be of the 14thc, but the W doorway dates to the13thc, showing signs of being inserted from elsewhere. The three-bay N arcade is of the late 12thc with rounded piers, square thin abaci and thinly chamfered arches. The original N aisle was demolished and the arcade blocked, but reopened when the present aisle built in 1852. The wide S aisle is of c. 1500, but the windows in the aisle were altered in 1852. The S doorway is late medieval, set in a porch with a four-centred outer archway. The S chapel is probably slightly later than the aisle. The windows in the chapel are Victorian, whilst the four lancets in the N wall of the chancel are also of 1852 (Lloyd and Pevsner 2006, 98). The only feature datable to the Romanesque period is the N arcade of the nave.
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A cruciform church of impressive size. The 2-bay chancel is 13thc and rib-vaulted. The crossing tower is Romanesque, much rebuilt in the 19thc, and on the exterior its bell openings are late 12thc in style but apparently Victorian. Some of the crossing piers have surviving genuine 12thc sculptural detail. The transepts have later W aisles. The nave is also 19thc recreation, but the responds of the nave are genuine.
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Exton is a small village in the South Downs National Park, 10 miles SE of the centre of Winchester iin the City of Winchester district of Hampshire. The parish extends more than 5 miles from E to W, but is only about a mile from N to S, with the centre of the village, including the church, centrally sited on the southern edge. The church has a long, aisleless nave of 4 bays with a wooden W bell turret and a S porch. The nave has a S doorway of c.1100, but the windows all date from the 13thc., as does the chancel and its arch. At the E end is a plate tracery double lancet with an oculus. Construction is of flint rubble with stone dressings. The church underwent a thorough restoration in 1847-48, including the addition of a N vestry to the chancel and a S porch to the nave. This is more fully described in the Comments below.
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Shalfleet church forms the core of the small nucleated village of the same name a little inland the island’s NW coast and to the S of a series of fleets draining into the Solent. The church consists of a substantial W tower, nave, S aisle, N and S porches and the chancel. The massive tower is slightly wider than the nave. The main entrance to the church is through the N porch and the doorway with a tympanum above. The lower parts of the N wall of the nave would appear to be contemporary with this doorway, with much of the wall being rebuilt in 1812. The S arcade of the nave of four bays was constructed in the mid to late 13thc and the chancel rebuilt at about this time. The north porch was constructed in 1754 (Lloyd and Pevsner 2006, 259-261). The Romanesque features are the N doorway to the nave and the W tower.
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St Thomas’s church served a rural area W of Havant until the early 20thc., when Bedhampton became increasingly urbanised. The building stands on raised ground. The walls are faced in flint or rubble, with ashlar dressings, and the roofs are covered in red tiles. The church comprises a nave with a bell cote over the W wall and a S porch, a three-bay N aisle with a catslide roof, a chancel, and, to the N of the chancel, a large vestry. The architectural details are mainly of the 13thc. and 14thc. (not necessarily in situ), but the chancel arch is decorated with Romanesque sculpture. It influenced the design of the Victorian font.
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Binstead is a small village of the Isle of Wight just W of Ryde. The church is located by the island’s NE coast where it forms the core of an older established settlement to the N of a suburban development. The area was formerly extensively used for the quarrying of building stone. The church consists of a nave, a N aisle, a chancel and a S porch. The chancel contains an abundance of herringbone fabric. The nave was rebuilt in 1845 and the N aisle was added in 1875. The S wall of the churchyard includes a round-headed Romanesque doorway which was formerly the N doorway of the nave (Lloyd and Pevsner 2006, 84-6). The lower courses of the S wall of the nave contain some herringbone fabric so it would appear that only the upper courses were rebuilt in the mid-19thc. The Romanesque features are the two pieces of sculpture reset above the nave west windows and the one piece reset in the gable end of the S porch, and the doorway with a figure above, reset in the S wall of the churchyard.
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Empshott church is located in an elevated, secluded village of scattered farms and woodland in rural E Hampshire, S of Selborne. Although small reset windows in the N and S walls of the W porch and in the N wall of the chancel are considered to be Norman, the church dates largely from c.1200, with major campaigns of renovation and rebuilding c.1624-26 and c.1867-68.
The building comprises: a W porch; a W bell turret with a glazed lantern beneath the bell stage; a nave with elaborate roof trusses; N and S aisles which have been greatly reduced in width but retain four-bay arcades; a reinforced chancel arch, and a chancel which once opened into N and S chapels. The S chapel has been replaced by a vestry.
The nave arcades date from c.1200. Stylistically they are Early English, like the chancel, but the S arcade includes scallops and cusped fluting, indicating the transitional nature of the ensemble. A Purbeck font of similar date stands at the W end of the nave.
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St John’s church is situated close to the early 17thc. manor house known as Yaverland Manor; together they occupy a small level of rising ground, to the S of the lateral chalk ridge in the ‘Bembridge Isle’ area at the eastern extremity of the Isle of Wight. St John's church originally consisted of a nave and chancel dating from the 12thc., connected by an elaborately carved chancel arch. It was restored in 1887--89 by the architect, Ewan Christian (1814--1895), who added the western bell turret and the south porch, which now protects the Romanesque S doorway of the nave (Lloyd and Pevsner 2006, 310-2). The Romanesque features are the S doorway and the chancel arch.
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St Edmund’s church is situated alongside a farm to the W of Wotton Creek which flows to the island’s NE coast into the Solent. There is much recent residential development to the S of the church site. Wootton church consists of a nave and chancel with no architectural division between the two. The round headed S doorway with chevron ornament indicates a 12th-c date for the fabric of the W end of the nave. The church would appear to have been extended towards E in the 13thc, with some change in the fabric of the S wall and the presence of pairs of lancet windows lighting the chancel from the N and S. The elevation of the N wall of the church published by Stone shows the ‘entrance from St Edmund’s Chapel now blocked up’ almost half way along the elevation from the W, as well as the scar of the former E wall of this structure (Stone 1891, plate XXXVIII). This chapel was rebuilt in 1893 along with an organ chamber and the wide archway leading to it unblocked and restored (Lloyd and Pevsner 2006, 302). The scallop capitals of this archway are of a 12th-c type. The Romanesque features are the S doorway and the responds of the opening from the nave into the N chapel.
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The large parish church of St Peter is located at the N end of High Street. Built of flint with ashlar dressings and tiled roofs, it comprises a chancel, a four-bay aisled nave, a S porch and a NW vestry. A tower stands at the W end of the S aisle.
A mortar has been brought into use as a font and loose stones are stored by the pulpit.