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Description: | An architectural drawing by Sir Thomas Graham Jackson of Northington church, built 1887-90 for the 4th Lord Ashburton of The Grange. It is a typical estate church paid for by the squire, although Lord Ashburton died before it was finished. He is buried in the churchyard.
The church is of Late Gothic style; flint with stone dressings and much chequerwork patterning. The big west tower, with pinnacles and battlements, is of a Somerset type. A prominent external feature is the rood-stair turret at the junction of nave and chancel, which is actually the access to the pulpit.
It replaced a medieval church, rebuilt in 1837, the old churchyard still surviving a little lower down the hillside.
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Pevsner, Nikolaus and David Lloyd. 1967. Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. The Buildings of England series, p. 365-357. | 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: | building Gothic Revival St John the Evangelist church Lord Ashburton Thomas Graham Jackson | Temporal: | start=1889-01-01; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Architectural Illustration Society, Second Series, plate 96 | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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