Quarley

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Quarley, Hampshire - St Michael and All Angels Church Click on photos to enlarge. Notes in italics from Hampshire and the Isle of Wight by Nikolaus Pevsner and David Lloyd (1967) Yale University Press, New Haven and London.


North West	North	South	South	Blocked north window

The nave is C11 and characteristic Saxo-Norman overlap. The N wall shows herringbone laying of the flint. The slate-like stones arranged ineffectually as voussoirs of the blocked S window and blocked N window (the latter only visible inside) are typically Saxon. The splays are single, not double (i.e. on interior only, see below). The N doorway, though not Saxon, has Saxon proportions.



The church has no bell-turret or bellcote. The three bells hang from a wooden frame only a few feet high, standing on the ground N of the church.		The E window is a completely different story. It is a Venetian window with square Ionic pillars to outside and inside, and it carries an inscription outside GULIELMUS BENSON & HENRICUS HOARE F. A.D. 1723. The inscription repeats inside, with the names reversed. ... A very early specimen of the Venetian window in England.



West	Blocked S window	View into chancel.	Venetian E window	Chancel north side