St Michael's church porch - 1882 - Quarley, Hampshire
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N 51° 11.664 W 001° 36.661
30U E 597054 N 5672359
South porch of St Michael's church, Quarley, built 1882.
Waymark Code: WMWH5E
Location: Southern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 09/05/2017
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"The church of ST. MICHAEL consists of a chancel 20 ft. 5 in. by 13 ft. 6 in., north vestry, nave 31 ft. 9 in. by 16 ft. 4 in., and a south porch.
The nave is not later than the beginning of the 12th century and has the remains of three windows and a north doorway, belonging to the early work. The walls are 2 ft. 8 in. thick, built of flint set in herring-bone fashion, and the windows are high in the walls. The western angles have fair-sized quoins of wrought stone, but the eastern angles, so far as they can be seen, are of flint without any wrought dressings. The whole church is so overgrown with ivy that much of the wall surface, especially in the chancel, is entirely hidden.
There was no doubt a chancel smaller than the present one, which appears to be an enlargement of the 15th century, and has now an east window of 18th-century classic design. The porch was added in 1881 and the vestry in 1882."
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