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Description: | The print was provided to the Gentleman's Magazine in November 1809 by the rector of Warblington, W Norris. He added: "The outside appearance of this edifice promises but little; but inside is very uniform and handsome, and, having been lately new pewed and repaired, is inferior to few country parish churches in point of neatness and comfort." It consisted of a nave and side aisles.
A modern authority, David Lloyd, thinks that the church has a highly picturesque outline, with long steep roofs sweeping down over the aisles nearly to the ground, broken by the gables and dormer windows. These are complemented by tiled roofs at many angles, set off by rough plastered walls. Part of the tower is Anglo-Saxon, the rest of the church essentially late twelfth and early thirteenth century, with little later alterations.
References:
1. Gentleman's Magazine, 1810, part 1, p 105.
2. Pevsner, Nikolaus and David Lloyd. 1967. Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. The Buildings of England series, p. 639-641. | 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: | St Thomas a Becket building church W Norris Warblington | Temporal: | start=1809-01-01; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | James Basire, Gentleman's Magazine | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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