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Description: | The tower of Boldre church seen from a distance. The lower stage dates from about 1300, whilst the upper stage, of brick, is dated 1697. This is recorded in inscriptions on two carved stones high up on the south side of the tower: to the vicar, Thomas Brougham and the churchwardens, Richard Budgen and John Barnes. In the Napoleonic Wars it was said that a cannon was mounted on the tower.
William Gilpin was vicar of Boldre between 1771 and 1804. For Gilpin, master of the picturesque, the summit of the woods around the village "is crowned with Boldre-church, which discovering it's embattled tower among the trees, takes the form of a lofty castle." (Remarks on Forest Scenery. 1791, p. 129).
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Pevsner, Nikolaus and David Lloyd. 1967. Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. The Buildings of England series, p. 113. | 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 picturesque William Gilpin church John Barnes St John Richard Budgen Thomas Brougham | Temporal: | start=1838-01-01; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | J M Gilbert; L Haghe; R Galpine, Day and Haghe | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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