Hartley
Mauditt, Hampshire - St Leonard's 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. Other information from the
leaflet in the church. |
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On its own by a large pond.
Nave and chancel and a pretty polygonal bell-turret held up partly by an
external W buttress, partly by a stepped projection inside. The wooden
base of the bell-turret is a 19th century replacement of a decayed 14th
century stone base. |
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The oldest parts of the church
were probably built between 1100 and 1125 by William de Mauditt. The
nave is of the C12, with Norman windows, no longer slits ... (i.e. the
round-arched windows). The south nave window to the right in the first
picture is of around 1320. The two larger windows in the north wall in the
middle picture are Victorian. |
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A sumptuous S doorway of
c.1200. The arch is pointed. The hood-mould has dogtooth, the main arch
radially placed clasps or horseshoes. |
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The chancel arch seems Earlier
Norman (e.g. early 12th century). It is low
and round and has a single-step arch. Chancel of c.1300 or later. Windows
with pointed-trefoiled heads, the E window with cusped Y-tracery (a
1972 replica of the decayed 1350 stonework). The church
leaflet states that the chancel is early 13th century and that the south
windows in the middle picture are late 13th century. However, one would
normally expect a pointed lancet window to be early 13th century
(supporting the church's dating of the chancel), and the two-light window
has a distinctly Perpendicular square hood-mould, e.g. 15-16th centuries. |
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Monuments on the north wall of
chancel to members of the Stuart family. Sir Nicholas Stuart, later
C17. Large black and white marble. Big open semicircular pediment.
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Nave looking west. The west
windows are recent, 1970.
Font. Octagonal, Perp, with quatrefoils and tracery panels.
(c.1500) |
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