Nominal: 981 Hz Weight: 840 lbs Diameter: 33.75" Bell 1 of 3
Founded by Unidentified (inscribed) 1642
Dove Bell ID: 3133 Tower ID: 20672 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Turnings: unturned Cracked: No
Hartley Wintney: St Mary
Overview
Grid reference: SU 767 558
The church is constructed of flint with much puddingstone rubble and pieces of tile and red brick. The transepts are constructed of red brick with a few vitrified blue bricks and stone dressings. The tower is composed entirely of flint, again with dressings of stone. The transepts have angle buttresses and the windows are set beneath square labels. The west angles of the nave have been repaired with clunch and are supported with angle buttresses. Roof coverings are tiled, that of the chancel being somewhat lower than the nave.
Visiting and facilities
Building is closed for worship
Building
Description of Archaeology and History
The Cistercian Priory church of Wintney was built from 1234 and the chapel was probably rebuilt in stone at that time and accredited with the status of a parish church. The walls and west arch are of this period. The fenestration was altered about the mid-14th century. In 1834 a programme of alteration was undertaken including the north and south transepts, the west and transeptal galleries and new east and other windows. The tower was added in 1842 by T.C. Cooper. No alterations were made to the church after this time, except the insertion of one stained glass window and necessary repairs to the fabric in 1924.
Exterior Description
The church is constructed of flint with much puddingstone rubble and pieces of tile and red brick. The transepts are constructed of red brick with a few vitrified blue bricks and stone dressings. The tower is composed entirely of flint, again with dressings of stone. The transepts have angle buttresses and the windows are set beneath square labels. The west angles of the nave have been repaired with clunch and are supported with angle buttresses. Roof coverings are tiled, that of the chancel being somewhat lower than the nave.
The west tower is of three stages, square and supported by angle buttresses. The west doorway composed of re-used stonework has no capitals and the north and south faces of the ground floor stage are pierced with single light lancets. The three faces of the second stage bear two light windows with trefoils to the heads and moulded labels, whilst the bell chamber accommodates three light louvres with double trefoils in the heads. The tower is battlemented and sports gabled pinnacles on which ball flowers are applied.
The original 13th century west doorway to the nave abuts against the chamfered unmoulded east doorway of the tower. The west doorway is finished with a double chamfer and is set within a segmental headed embrasure towards the nave.
Building Materials
Flint
13th Century
Flint
Interior
Interior Description
Both west, north and south transept galleries possess fronts with blank arcading of simple single lights. The galleries are panelled to dado level; the west gallery is filled with tiers of plain benches whilst the transepts continue the numbered series of box pews of the front of the nave and the ground level of the transepts. There is a single chamfered arch over the west gallery which springs from gallery level and is evidently of 1834. The north side of the nave is lit by a lancet, which bears a brick 19th century surround on the exterior, and a single light with an ogee head. Of this window, only the jambs are old. The south side has a window of two trefoil headed lights with a single trefoil to the head which seems. to be coeval with the tower. East of this is the sill of a single light visible high in the exterior wall, and further east is a Perpendicular style window of 1834 with panel tracery. This is of the same style as the east window and the two windows of each transept which are ranged above each other to light gallery and ground levels respectively. The four-centred arches which open into the transepts are of plastered brick.
The unmoulded chamfered chancel arch is 1834 but it utilises a few 13th century stones. The corbels at the north-east and south-east angles of the chancel originally supported abeam. The north window of the chancel is of two trefoiled lights within a square embrasure. The south side is pierced by a small trefoiled lancet set within a wide reveal and a single light with chamfered jambs set low in the wall. Below the sill of the eastern window is a 12th century pillar piscina with a plain foliage capital. This is partly built into another piscina which is set under an arched recess. There are traces of wall paintings on the east wall of the chancel: they represent a Crucifixion with attendant figures in black and red probably mediaeval. On the tympanum space over the chancel arch are the Decalogue, the Lord's Prayer and the Creed. On the south side of this wall is an ogee headed niche which originally held a statue of the Blessed Virgin,Mary. The floor is of rough red brick-tiles but the box pews and benches are raised on wooden platforms. Both roofs and walls are plastered. A king post and tie-beam are exposed in the nave.
Fixtures and fittings
Altar
Wooden table with turned legs and a moveable top inlaid with an inscription in a rectangular border.
Rail
1780
With shapely twisted balusters.
Pew (object)
1834
Plain box pews, evidently of 1834 in the transepts, galleries, and the front part of the nave, and of painted pine with numbers painted on them. Behind the box pews in the nave there is a series of benches.
Chest
c. 14th Century
An ironbound chest of wood.
Font (object)
19th Century
A stone cylinder rests on a broken shaft. A 19th century font in the 13th century style.
Bells
Nominal: 1190.5 Hz Weight: 504 lbs Diameter: 28.5" Bell 2 of 3
Founded by Richard Phelps 1721
Dove Bell ID: 48465 Tower ID: 20672 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Turnings: unturned Cracked: No
Nominal: 1079 Hz Weight: 560 lbs Diameter: 30" Bell 3 of 3
Founded by Henry I Knight 1612
Dove Bell ID: 48466 Tower ID: 20672 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Turnings: unturned Cracked: No
Churchyard
Grid reference: SU 767 558
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.
National Heritage record for England designations
There are no records of National Heritage assets within the curtilage of this site.
Environment
Ancient, Veteran & Notable Trees
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Renewables
| Renewable | Installed |
|---|---|
| Solar PV Panels | N/A |
| Solar Thermal Panels | N/A |
| Biomass | N/A |
| Wind Turbine | N/A |
| Air Source Heat Pump | N/A |
| Ground Source Heat Pump | N/A |
| Ev Charging | N/A |
Species summary
There are no records of species within the curtilage of this site.
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