Hurstbourne
Priors, Hampshire - St Andrew's Church
12th century
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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
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Neo-Norman
W tower of yellow brick, built deplorably late, in 1870. The architects
were Clark & Holland. But the doorway is original. Arch with zigzag
and rosettes in shallow relief. To the same predecessor building belongs
the arch now to the N chapel, but originally no doubt from nave to
chancel. It has exactly the same
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Early
C13 chancel with lancets and priest's doorway. East window with late
15th century tracery.
N chapel Elizabethan with straight-headed windows (of five lights to E and
W), but with arched lights.
The nave was rebuilt in the 19th century with windows in the
Perpendicular style of 15th century. C18 S chapel of brick (for
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Nave and chancel. The chancel
arch probably dates from the 16th century when the north chapel was built
and the Norman chancel arch moved to provide the entrance from chancel to
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Monument. Robert Oxenbridge,
died 1574, between chancel and N chapel, and open to both. The arch and
jambs are patterned with the simplest geometrical motifs. Two recumbent
effigies of stone, not good. Tomb-chest with kneeling children on both
sides. Also detached Doric colonnettes at the angles. Above
them the Ionic columns l. and r. of the arch for the effigies. Top
achievement. |
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Arcade in the east end of the
chancel with some 12th century ornamentation.
Entrance doorway at west end of nave (19th century).
Norman font of the 12th century contructed of Caen stone. |
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