Description

GATCOMBE

SZ48NE GATCOMBE
1353-0/1/94 CHURCH OF ST OLAVE
18/01/67
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Parish church. Nave and south porch C13, Tower added C15,
Chancel rebuilt in 1864 and belfry added in early C20. Nave
and south porch built of greensand rubble, chancel of coursed
greensand rubble, tower of greensand ashlar. Tiled roof,
except for South porch which is of stone slabs. Nave, chancel,
south porch, west tower and south west vestry. West Tower of 3
stages with offset buttresses and bands between stages. Bell
stage has bell openings of double lancets with pierced
screens. Crenellated parapet with water spouts. West window is
traceried having 3 triple arches with lancets above. South
porch is gabled with stone coping, kneelers and grotesque mask
saddlestone with cross above. Pointed arched doorway. Roof of
reused timbers from H.M.S. Thunderer, a warship which fought
at Trafalgar, reused in 1910. Nave has buttresses and 2 C15
windows with double cinquefoil-headed lights below and four
trefoil-headed lights above. Lancet window in centre of
buttresses. Coping at gable end. C19 decorative ridge tiles.
North side has triangular buttresses, one elaborate C15 window
and 2 cinquefoil headed lights. Chancel is of 2 bays with 2
trefoil-headed windows, plinth and band. C19 cross-shaped
saddlestone. East window of 3 arches with 3 circles above and
drip moulding. Vestry is early C20 of greensand coursed rubble
with hipped tiled roof and mullioned windows. Interior: West
tower has tierceron star roof with centre opening for bell
ropes. Font of Purbeck marble, an octagonal bowl with 2 flat
blank arches to each side and 1 late C18 and 1 early C19
marble wall plaque. Nave of 4 bays. C19 roof boarded with
double row of through purlins and arched braces. Chest tomb to
C. Grant Seely d.1917 with recumbant effigy of young soldier
by Sir Thomas Brock. Nave south window has original fragments
of medieval stained glass (angels). Chancel arch C13 with
pointed arch on octagonal piers, flanked by C20 pointed
arches. Roof of c.1865, an arch-braced boarded roof with
through purlins. Piscina and triple C19 sedillia. Credence
table and Jacobean altar. South wall has very fine early C14
oak effigy of a knight, cross legged with a lion at his feet
and angel at his head, the face and angel recut by village
craftsmen. Very fine C19 glass, the east window the Last
Supper and the two Marys at the Sepulchre and the Ascension in
the north wall by William Morris, the Crucifixion in the East.
window by Rossetti and the Entombment in the East window by
Ford Madox Brown and the Lamb and Angels in the East window
and the Baptism in the South wall by Burne Jones.
(B.O.E. Hampshire and the Isle of Wight: 745).

Listing NGR: SZ4924085094

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St. Olave's Church, Gatcombe at Wikipedia
• St. Olave's Church, Gatcombe official website
• Wikidata Q7590877

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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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