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Easton, Hampshire -
St Mary Church
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Notes in italics from Hampshire and the Isle of Wight by Nikolaus Pevsner
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Entirely
of c.1200, and made more showily Norman in the 1860s by Woodyer. The
picturesquely outlandish W tower with its shingled top parts must be his,
except for the lower parts, including the arch towards the nave, which
takes us to c.1200: unmoulded pointed arch. Above it round-arched doorway
into the former nave roof. |
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But
these motifs will hardly be noticed, so strong is the impact of the
chancel. It consists of a rib-vaulted square bay and a rib-vaulted apse.
Finely moulded ribs, simple bosses. Between chancel and apse an arch of
four orders of slender shafts with typically late C12 capitals. Zigzag in
the arch. The chancel has in addition a W arch. This has daintily shafted
responds including some keeling and capitals with waterleaf. The arch with
keeled rolls has rather caved in. |
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The
nave has a S doorway with Norman decoration (e.g. three shaft-rings round
the shafts), nearly entirely Victorian, and a simpler N doorway. The
position of the doorways midway down the nave is unusual. Also two Norman
N windows, small outside, but large and provided with a continuous keeled
roll inside. |
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