Lyndhurst, Hampshire - Church reredos - postcard - Lymington pmk 1910

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• Picture / Image:  Lyndhurst Church Reredos (Leighton's Ten Virgins)
• Publisher: FGO Stewart (578)
• Postally used: yes
• Stamp:  Edward VII half d light green
• Postmark(s): Lymington Aug 3 1910 cds
• Sent to:  Miss Morehead, Messes Daesaert & Son, drapers, Union Street, Aldershot
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Lyndhurst /lɪndhərst/ is a large village and civil parish situated in the New Forest National Park in Hampshire, England. Serving as the administrative capital of the New Forest, it is a popular tourist attraction, despite local traffic congestion, with many independent shops, art galleries, cafés, museums, pubs and hotels. The nearest city is Southampton, about nine miles (14 km) to the north-east. As of 2001 Lyndhurst had a population of 2,973,^[2] increasing to 3,029 at the 2011 Census.^[1] The name derives from an Old English name, comprising the words lind (lime tree) and hyrst (wooded hill).

Known as the "Capital of the New Forest",^[3] Lyndhurst houses the New Forest District Council. The first mention of Lyndhurst was in the Domesday Book of 1086 under the name 'Linhest'. The Court of Verderers sits in the Queens House in Lyndhurst. The church of St. Michael and All Angels was built in the 1860s, and contains a fresco by Lord Leighton and stained-glass windows by Charles Kempe, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and others; Alice Liddell, the inspiration for Alice in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, is buried there. Glasshayes House (the former Lyndhurst Park Hotel) is the only surviving example of Sir Arthur Conan Doyles architectural experimentation, and local folklore records Lyndhurst as the site of a Dragon-slaying, and as being haunted by the ghost of Richard Fitzgeorge de Stacpoole, 1st Duc de Stacpoole.

The village's Anglican church, St Michael and All Angels, is on a mound overlooking the village. It was built between 1858–70,^[19] and is the third such building on the site.^[20] The church was designed by William White.^[20] It is constructed with red brick with yellow trim.^[19] It has a tall brick-banded spire at the north-west end. The interior has yellow, white and red exposed brickwork, and a nave roof decorated with life-size supporting angels.^[19] The church contains a fresco by Frederick Leightonshowing the Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins, with biblical characters said to be modelled on local people. The church also contains stained glass windows designed by William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, and Charles Kempe.^[20]

Alice Liddell, also known as Alice Hargreaves, the inspiration for Alice in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, lived in and around Lyndhurst after her marriage to Reginald Hargreaves, and is buried in the graveyard.^[20]

There is also a very fine, small Catholic Church of the Assumption and St Edward the Confessor, built by Sir Arthur Blomfieldbetween 1894 and 1896 as a memorial to Marie-Louise Souberbielle.