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Avington, Hampshire  -  St Mary Church
18th Century

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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 furnishings are extremely well preserved. ... - Three-decker pulpit. - Box pews and family pews. - Hat pegs along the wall. - The Reredos with an open segmental pediment in the middle again looks decidedly earlier. ... W gallery with the date 1771. - On it a barrel organ, the case Gothic; earlyC19. - (Chandelier. Of brass; 1771. ..)
(These notes 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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