Bighton,
Hampshire - All Saints Church
12th century
Click photos to enlarge.
Notes in italics from Hampshire and the Isle of Wight by Nikolaus Pevsner
and David Lloyd (1967)
Yale University Press, New Haven and London. |
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The church
is basically 12th century with 13th century additions.
Low W tower, the upper part weatherboarded.
(Interior of tower in last picture). |
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The
chancel is Early Norman (early 12th century),
see the one S window. |
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Late C12 two-bay arcades,
typically Hampshire. Short round piers, spurs on the bases, square abaci,
but pointed arches with one slight chamfer. The S capitals
multi-scalloped, the N capitals with trumpet-scallops developing into a
wavy fringe, i.e. a little later. |
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Genuine E chapels of both
aisles, of the date of the arcades, but the S chapel extended later. The
exterior shows an E lancet for the S aisle. |
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Screen. 1899 by Comper. By the
same no doubt the decoration of the roofs. it is Bodley-inspired. (Right-hand
picture is south aisle roof). |
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Pillar piscina. The leaf
capital goes well with the N arcade.
Font. Of Purbeck marble, table type, but the sides slightly tapered. Four
of the flat blank arches to each side. |
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Manor House, by the church.
The facade must be of c.1675. Five bays, brick. One-bay projection with a
big shaped gable and l. and r. of doorway and middle window vertically set
ovals, a typical motif of that date. Raised brick quoins at the angles and
the angles of the middle projection. |
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