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Dove Bell ID: 65493 Tower ID: 25683 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Lymington: All Saints, Woodside
Overview
Grid reference: SZ 326 945
W. H. Romaine Walker, 1909 as the daughter church to St Thomas’s. One composition with linked hall.
Visiting and facilities
Building is open for worship
Building
Ground Plan Description and Dimensions
Ground plan:
Six-bay nave with chancel, aisles, NE Lady Chapel, SE organ loft and attached vestry; attached to NW corner by an open porch is four-bay church hall with w/c annexe to N end.
Linked church hall also by W. H. Romaine Walker, 1909, separately listed at Grade II for high group value with church. One composition around two sides of a courtyard. Shares common entrance with church. Contains kitchen, lavatories and community space.
Footprint of Church buildings: 498 m²
Description of Archaeology and History
Within the parish are the ‘Buckland Rings’, a multivallate hill-fort with evidence for Neolithic and Bronze age occupation, and Bronze Age remains and beaker pottery have been found at a number of other sites. Other archaeological finds in the vicinity of the church have included Lower Paleolithic hand-axes, and Roman remains including a ditch, coins, a cult head and (possibly) carved stones and a necklace. However, there is no special reason to think that the area of the church and churchyard has significant archaeological potential.
An archaeological watching brief should be in place in the event of any excavation of the site.
The churchyard is unburied.
Consecrated in December 1909 and opened in the following year.
Paid for with money bequeathed by two sisters, Miss Harriet Spike and Mrs Fanny Haldane (widow of George Haldane). Provided 300 seats serving the westward expansion of Lymington, with a hall intended for use as a Sunday school. The builders were J. McWilliam of Bournemouth.
William Henry Romaine Walker (1854-1940) studied under G. E. Street (noted Victorian ecclesiastical architect and designer of the Law Courts). His father was a vicar and Romaine Walker’s first church work was for his father’s church of St Saviour, Pimlico, where he oversaw internal alterations in 1882-83. Best known for his country houses: nearest to All Saints is the noted Rhinefield Lodge of 1888-90. Also rebuilt the main staircase at Chatsworth in 1910 and designed the Edwardian extensions to the Tate. His most comparable buildings to All Saints are the churches of St John the Baptist, Upper Parkstone, Dorset (1902-03) and St Saviour, Brockenhurst (consecrated 1905), both with Besant.
All the trees in and around the churchyard have TPOs.
Exterior Description
Church and hall are set at right angles, defining two sides of a courtyard. The two buildings are linked by a shared entrance porch with a pointed-arched portal.
The church hall is in a C17 domestic style, chosen as a subtle contrast with that of the church to express their different functions. It has four windows each side, E and W, with mullions and leaded glazing. There is a lower projection to the N containing the kitchen, with two windows and a door on the W side, and a stone chimney to each end N and S; the boiler house and lavatories are at the S end, with a door on the W side. The carefully considered integration of the church hall with the church is noted amongst the principal reasons for the building’s designation at Grade II.
The porch features much fine stone carving. The column capitals to the main portal are carved with thick foliage through which a hooded figure alternately pursues and is pursued by a monstrous creature. Internally, the doorway to the church features headstops of a knight and lady, and that to the hall of a maiden and an old man. The ceiling tracery springs from corbels depicting the symbols of the four Evangelists and meets in a Green Man boss.
The church window tracery is in Decorated Gothic style, with mouchettes within mandorlas to upper lights. Aisle and transept windows are two-light, with hood moulds and a string course beneath. There is a set-back buttress between each pair of windows. Triple E windows are joined by a hood-mould: a two-light central window with a lancet either side. Double W windows, both two-light, are joined by a hood mould, with a string-course beneath. A plinth runs around the church.
The aisles are lower than the nave. The roof line is defined by a deep cornice. There is a small octagonal belfry tower at the E end of the N aisle with a crocketted spirelet with a cross finial and lancet openings, set in a crenelated turret with lancet openings beneath the parapet and a single lancet, containing tracery similar to that of the other church windows, on the SE face.
On the N side, a low vestry and an organ chamber in the form of a N transept with diagonal buttresses and a door on the W side.
At the W end, a door with hood mould. Triple lancets in apex of gable to ventilate the roof-space. Gable ends with kneelers to E and W ends, each surmounted with cross finial.
Building Fabric and Features
Nave
20th century 6 bay
Chancel
20th century
Aisle
20th century north and south
Lady Chapel
20th century north east
Organ Loft
20th century
Vestry
20th century
Porch
20th century
Church Hall
20th century
Building Materials
Limestone
20th Century
Fossiliferous
Limestone
20th Century
Limestone
Limestone
20th century rough-faced snecked limestone masonry
Bath Stone
20th century dressings
Slate
20th century roofs
Timber
20th century roof
Painted Plaster
20th century interior walls
Stone
20th century alternating bands of white and red flooring
Interior
Interior Description
The N door (wooden, single-leaf, with ornamental iron hinges) opens into a light, lofty interior. There is a level parquet floor until the E end, where there is one step up to the chancel and the Lady Chapel. The chancel floor is in wide bands of white stone alternating with thin bands of red tile, creating a sort of pinstriped streaky bacon effect. There is a further step at the communion rail and two steps up to the altar.
Clustered quatrefoil piers with roll-moulded capitals carry moulded arches. A stained timber wagon roof, divided into square compartments with moulded ribs, is continuous the length of the church. There is no chancel arch. A string-course runs under the windows, which have hood moulds.
The building’s exuberant stone carving, inside and out, is noted in the listing description as being ‘of a very high order’, and one of the principal reasons for the building’s designation at Grade II. Moulded surrounds to NW and W doors are enriched with characterful carvings of tradesmen, apparently portraits: a carpenter with a saw, a smith with a vice, a mason with hammer and chisel, and a stone-carver working on a gargoyle. There are further carvings between the E windows and forming stops to the hood moulds of the arches between the chancel and organ chamber / Lady Chapel. A small corridor between the Lady Chapel and the chancel formed by the little belfry tower has a carefully detailed ribbed vault with a central roof boss depicting a piper. There is a piscina in the sanctuary, S side, with elaborate floral tracery.
The listing description notes as a principal reason for the building’s designation at Grade II that the church is carefully designed and very little altered, possessing a spacious and harmonious interior. The replacement of the original oak pews with modern, brightly upholstered chairs has somewhat upset this harmony but the quality of the whole is undiminished. There is an oak choir screen between the chancel and the Lady Chapel. The choir stalls stand on level parquet platforms.
Fixtures and fittings
Altar
20th century High altar: dark oak, carved front. Lady chapel altar: oak with star of David motif.
Pulpit
20th century Oak on stone steps, octagonal, with blind traceried panels and an elaborately-carved book rest.
Lectern
20th century Brass, eagle standing on globe. Wooden lectern to Lady Chapel. A brass plaque records it as a gift in memory of Mary Edwards King by her husband and children.
Font (component)
20th century Sandstone, with wooden cover. Now in S aisle. Plain.
Reredos
20th century Caen stone. Late Gothic-style tabernacle with central figure of Christ flanked by six smaller saints, within traceried canopies. Two orders of angels within canopies on piers to the sides. Noted in the listing description as a ‘principal reason for designation’ of the building at Grade II, as ‘extremely accomplished’.
Stall
20th century Choir stalls and readers desks in dark oak with tracery decoration.
Rail
20th century Oak rails, wrought iron supports.
Organ (component)
20th century Norman A. Beard, 1909. IIP 12.
Plaque (component)
20th century Plaque in memory of Robert Herringham Hole of Delawarr House, d.1963. Plaque in memory of Francesca, Aimee, Peter and Ethel Curry, 1956. Brass plaque: “To the glory of God and in memory of Douglas Cumming Paget Kindersley, DSO & Croix de Guerre, Capt. 3rd Batt. Highland Light Infantry, attached 2nd Battalion King’s Own Scottish Borderers (April 1915 to June 1917), killed in action in France, June 1917. RIP.”
Stained Glass (window)
20th century In central E window, two small coats of arms, with a cross in each of the flanking E windows.
Bells
Portable Furnishings and Artworks
'Rosehill' wooden chairs with bright blue upholstery replaced the original oak pews in 2002; also children's chairs with red upholstery.
Churchyard
Grid reference: SZ 326 945
Burial and War Grave Information
It is unknown whether the building is consecrated.
It is unknown whether the churchyard has been used for burial.
It is unknown whether the churchyard is used for burial.
It is unknown whether the churchyard has war graves.
Environment
Ancient, Veteran & Notable Trees
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
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There are no records of Ancient, Veteran or Notable Trees within the curtilage of this site.
Renewables
| Renewable | Installed |
|---|---|
| Solar PV Panels | No |
| Solar Thermal Panels | No |
| Biomass | No |
| Wind Turbine | No |
| Air Source Heat Pump | No |
| Ground Source Heat Pump | No |
| Ev Charging | No |
Species summary
There are no records of species within the curtilage of this site.
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
To learn more about all the species recorded against this church, go to the Burial Ground Portal within the NBN Atlas. You can check the spread of records through the years, discovering what has been recorded and when, plus what discoveries might remain to be uncovered.
'Seek advice' Species
More information on species and action to be taken upon discovery.
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
To learn more about all the species recorded against this church, go to the Burial Ground Portal within the NBN Atlas. You can check the spread of records through the years, discovering what has been recorded and when, plus what discoveries might remain to be uncovered.
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