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The church was built between 1837 and 1839 by William Crawley Yonge, patron of the living, with Owen Browne Carter of Winchester. It was the only building William Yonge designed, although he was later asked to advise on the building of Ampfield church. New accommodation was needed to cope with the increase in population, but many favoured the enlargement of the surviving old church. Yonge, strengthened by the support of the new vicar, John Keble, pressed for a new church, closer to the hub of the village and away from the noise and distraction of the railway. This church, built of blue brick, was consecrated on 30 July 1839.
A feature of the church is the polygonal bell-turret on the ridge of the west gable. It was copied from one at Corston in Wiltshire, and housed two bells, dated 1838. The decorative spire was removed in 1972 as being unsafe. 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=1900-01-01; end=1920-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Taunt & Co; (Copied by: Peach, Len; 1995) | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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