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St Michael, Quarley, Hampshire

Location
(51°11′39″N, 1°36′39″W)
Quarley
SU 27280 43985
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Hampshire
now Hampshire
  • Kathryn A Morrison
  • Kathryn A Morrison
13 August 2025

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Description

St Michael, Quarley, is located 9km. W of Andover, in N Hampshire. It stands to the N of the village. The chancel has a Venetian window (1723) in the E wall and a vestry (1882) to the N. The aisleless nave is entered through a S porch (1882). A blocked round-headed window in the S wall is made of stone tiles and may be Anglo-Saxon. Several other plain ashlar openings may date from the late 11thc. These include the jamb of a blocked N window, a round-headed W window, and a blocked N doorway with tall, narrow proportions. A wooden belfry was superseded by a shingled wooden bell-frame on the N side of the church in 1882. The font may date from c.1200.

History

In the Domesday Survey of 1086, Quarley was held by the King and had a church. However, the church and manor had been given to the Abbey of Bec in Normandy by Queen Mathilda (Maud) in 1083.

The church was restored in 1882 (Andover Chronicle, 14 July 1882, 4).

Features

Exterior Features

Doorways

Furnishings

Fonts

Comments/Opinions

The nave of the church, together with the windows and doorway mentioned above, may date from the 11thc: Pevsner and Lloyd (1967) considered it ‘characteristic Saxo-Norman overlap’. The font appears to be of a piece, datable to c.1200, but Bullen et al. (2010) thought that the bowl was 12thc. and the base 13thc.

Bibliography

Andover Chronicle, 14 July 1882, 4.

  1. Bullen, J. Crook, R. Hubbuck & N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England Hampshire: Winchester & the North, London, 2010, 461-462.

Historic England List Entry No. 1339411; Legacy No. 140100.

  1. Pevsner & D. Lloyd, The Buildings of England Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, London, 1967, 472-473.

VCH (William Page ed.), Hampshire, vol. 4, London, 1911, 385-387.