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Description: | Copy photograph of a postcard (No 635).
The church, together with a farm and cottage, are all that remain of a deserted medieval village. An isolated spot, the church is on a high plateau.
The church is a small building of flint and stone, consisting of nave (41 feet long and 17.5 feet wide), chancel (24 feet by 15.5 feet), wooden bell-turret at the west and a south porch. It dates from the twelfth century: the thickness of the walls (2 feet 7 inches) is typical of this period. The plain arched light windows in the nave are eighteenth century additions, probably an attempt to 'beautify' the church. The Norman south doorway has two grotesque, oversized heads cut in the capitals.
The interior contains several tombs to the St John family.
References:
1. Victoria History of the Counties of England. 1911. Volume 4, p. 445.
2. Pevsner, Nikolaus and David Lloyd. 1967. Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. The Buildings of England series, p. 228. | 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: | Farley Chamberlayne building deserted medieval village St John's Church church | Temporal: | start=1906-01-01; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Mentor, of Southampton; (Copied by: Peach, Len; May 1995) | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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