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The church was built between 1837 and 1839 by William Crawley Yonge and Owen Browne Carter. It replaced the old church half a mile away, being built at the south end of the village at the base of Otterbourne Hill.
The editor of the Victoria County History was scathing of what had been built: "It is in a poor Gothic style, and has but little architectural interest." The work of the neo-Gothic revivalists has, however, been revised in recent years, and Owen Browne Carter in particular is now seen as a pioneer in the new school. The use of white stone from Caen was an innovation by the architects. None had been used in southern England since the Reformation, but it soon became fashionable in church building.
The chancel was enlarged in 1873 by T H Wyatt with the addition of the apsidal end.
References:
1. Otterbourne Parish Council. [1984]. A Portrait of Otterbourne, p. 38.
2. Pevsner, Nikolaus and David Lloyd. 1967. Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. The Buildings of England series, p. 366.
3. Yonge. Charlotte M. 1891. Old Times at Otterbourne. Second edition, p. 34-35.
4. Victoria History of the Counties of England. 1908. Volume 3, p. 443.
5. Freeman, Robin. The Art and Architecture of Owen Browne Carter (1806-1859). 1991. Hampshire papers No.1, p. 7-8. | 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 | Rights holder: | D Len Peach | Subjects: | building church gravestone St Matthew's Church | Temporal: | start=1890-01-01; end=1910-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Copied by: Peach, Len; April 1995 | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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