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Newton Valence, Hampshire  -  St Mary Church
13th 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.


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The W tower is Early English (one small W lancet), but has a Perp W doorway (c.15th century) and a brick top of 1812. Nave and chancel look Victorian (restoration 1871), but are E.E., cf. the S lancet and in the chancel more lancets ... the E window of three stepped lancets very close together and under one arch ...

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Interior views looking east and west. Wide N chapel of c.1300 attached to the nave.

 

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