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Weeke, Winchester, Hampshire  -  St Matthew Church

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Notes in italics 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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Nave and chancel and bell-turret. 
Most windows are C17.
The S doorway, however, and the chancel arch are Norman. The doorway has a rounded arch, the chancel arch a pointed one with slight chamfers.


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North transept and entrance from chancel. Chancel east window.
Fragments of the C15 and later roundels in the E window.


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Brass on north wall of nave.
William Complyn died 1498 and wife. No effigy but a St Christopher, 8.5 in. high.
 

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