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Description: | A pencil drawing of Colemore church shortly after its restoration in 1845 by Owen Browne Carter, the Winchester architect. His intention had been to create from a simple vernacular church, dating from the eleventh century, a unified Early English church on sound Ecclesiological principles. In the event, few of his proposals were put into effect. The actual work consisted mainly of basic repairs to the roof, insertion of new east and west windows and three other window openings in the south wall and, internally, repairing floors, replacing the old pews with open seating and providing a new pulpit and desk. A new south porch (seen in the illustration) was also built, not of stone as Carter envisaged but of oak. Later restorations were carried out in 1866 (to the belltower by John Colson) and in 1874-5 (to the chancel).
The 1845 restoration cost about £315, partly paid for by a church rate of two shillings in the pound collected by instalments over 2 years (£67) and a contribution of £30 by the Church Building Society. The repairs were executed by Mr Hellis, a builder from Alton.
Reference:
Freeman, Robin. 1991. The Art and Architecture of Owen Browne Carter (1806-1859), p. 13-14. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Subjects: | Hellis church Colemore St Peter ad Vincula Colmer Owen Browne Carter | Temporal: | start=1849-01-01; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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