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Avington, Hampshire - St
Mary Church
18th Century
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photos to enlarge.
Notes in italics are 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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1768-71. Built of brick. Embattled W tower, three-bay body
with battlements and with a Venetian E window. The other
windows are arched. Doorways with rustication of
alternating sizes. It all looks earlier than c.1770.
The church replaced a decayed
flint and stone Saxon church on the same site. |
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The furnishings are extremely well preserved. ... -
Three-decker pulpit. - Box pews and family pews. - Hat pegs
along the wall.
The box pews
are of mahogany, previously said to have come from a ship of
the Spanish Armada of 1588, but there is no evidence for
this. Coincidentally the original Avington House behind the
church was built in the late 1500s, although much altered
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The Reredos with an open segmental pediment in the middle again looks
decidedly earlier.
Communion rail of metal. |
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W gallery with the date 1771. - On it a barrel organ, the case Gothic;
early C19. - (Chandelier. Of brass; 1771. ..).
Writing on the panels of the organ
records that it was given by Mary Shelley in 1849 (widow of
Percy Bysshe Shelley and author of Frankenstein). The
organ has two barrels each playing 15 hymns and chants.
Arms of King George III dated 1771. |
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MONUMENTS. Marchioness
of Carnarvon, died 1768. It was she who had the church
built. Pink and white marble with a long inscription, an
obelisk, and two urns.- George Bridges, died 1751. Yellow,
grey, and pink marble. Two columns support a broken
pediment. Sarcophagus and urn in the middle. |
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John Shelley, died 1866.
In the Renaissance style. Pilasters, pediment, and bust.
Brother of the poet Percy Bysshe
Shelley. He acquired Avington Park in 1847-48. The family
sold the property in 1951. See Shelley
family vault below.
Memorial to Lady Anna Eliza
Brydges, Duchess of Buckingham and Chandos, died 1836. |
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Memorial to infant
Edmund Mitchell Parfitt died1846.
Hatchment from the
funeral of the Duchess of Buckingham and Chandos in 1836
uniting the arms of Buckingham and Chandos.
Memorial to Dudley
Hepburn Stent died 1974. |
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Memorial to James Jeffreys died
1786.
Marble baluster font. |
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Shelley family vault and memorial
opposite the church. |
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Avington Park |
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