All Saints Church (Little Somborne)

51.0919 - 1.4557Koordinaten: 51 ° 5 ' 31 " N, 1 ° 27' 21 " W

The All Saints Church in Little Somborne is a redundant church building of the Anglican Church in the hamlet of Little Somborne in Hampshire, England. It was classified on 29 May 1957 by English Heritage as a Grade II * Listed Building in, and is maintained by the Churches Conservation Trust. The church is located about seven kilometers southeast of Stockbridge, on the east side of the road A3057.

History

The All Saints Church has its origins in Anglo -Saxon times and is recorded in the Domesday Book. The original building has a nave and a chancel, but in 1170 the chancel was removed and extended the nave towards the east. Was then added to a very small sanctuary in the east. He was removed in the 17th century and the arch was filled with a wall into which a window was used.

Architecture

The church is built of flint broken, the walls are plastered with mortar and paint. The roof is tiled. The floor plan consists of a one-piece nave and chancel, the belfry at its western end is bretterverschalt. At the eastern end, within the former chancel arch, a window is with three rectangular window openings above are recessed into the wall two lancet windows. In the north wall of the chancel a narrow window of the twelfth century has been preserved, west of it is a now bricked up door from the same period. Also in the northern wall is a section with pilasters in the Anglo- Saxon style of Binstead on the Isle of Wight. In the south wall of the chancel a lancet windows from the 13th century is embedded and west of two rectangular windows with narrow openings. In between, there is the entrance with a round archway in Norman style. The west window dates from the 14th century and has two openings with trefoil and above there is a four leaf.

The plaster was removed inside the building of the walls and the floor was partially replaced by stone slabs. On the south side of the chancel arch a small niche in the wall with round arch is embedded. The baptismal font dates from the 19th century.

Churchyard

In the churchyard is the grave of Thomas Sopwith, an aviation pioneer, who developed the Sopwith Camel and died in 1989.

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