Odiham, Hampshire - All Saints Church - West End - postcard

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• Picture / Image:  All Saints Church, Odiham, Hampshire - view of the West End
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Odiham is a large historic village and civil parish in the Hart district of Hampshire, England. It is twinned with Sourdeval in the Manche Department of France. The current population is 4,406. The parish has an area of 7,354 acres with 50 acres covered with water.^[1] The nearest railway station is at Hook, on the London and South Western Railway. The village had its own Hundred in the nineteenth century, named The Hundred of Odiham.^[2]

RAF Odiham aerodrome lies to the south of the village.

All Saints Church is an Anglican church in the village of Odiham, Hampshire. It is situated near to Odiham's high street, 9.5 miles (15.2 km) away from Basingstoke. English Heritage has designated the church as a grade I listed building.

By the 11th century there was a church on this site, as recorded in the Domesday Book. The oldest visible parts of the present church are the chancel and the base of the tower, dating from the early 13th century. Between the chancel and tower, the nave has been altered and extended into side aisles, in two stages, and the upper parts of the tower completely rebuilt in the 17th century.^[1]

The present church has a nave with gabled aisles of similar height, which extend to flank the western tower.^[1] The chancel projects to the east, and is flanked with gabled chapels. The walls are of flint with some rubble included, with the later parts, including the upper stages of the tower, being red brick. The roof is of tiles.^[1]

Externally, there are seven buttresses down each side, framing windows of different dates and with tracery in different styles, both Decorated and Perpendicular Gothic^[1] as typified in the large windows of the west ends of the aisles, being Decorated on the north side and Perpendicular on the south. See image above. There is a gabled porch on the north side sheltering a doorway with a depressed arch into the north aisle.

The tower, which has 13th-century foundations of flint and rubble has been rebuilt above the level of the eaves in red brick in the mid 17th century.^[1] At the lower level is the western portal with a depressed Tudor arch, recently restored, above which rises a traceried window framed by a brick course. The tower rises in two stages, the first having a square-topped mullioned window in the Tudor style. The belfry level has a large rounded-headed opening with Classical details, including rusticated voussoirs, Ionic pilasters and a brick entablature.^[1] The tower is topped by a crenelated parapet, and pinnacles in the Tudor style dating from the 19th century.^[1] The tower holds a ring of six bells dating from 1614.

The nave is divided from the aisles by arcades of different dates and styles. The arcade on the south side dates from the 13th century and has four bays^[1] and clustered columns with delicate shafts. The arcade on the north has three wider arches^[1] supported by octagonal columns of the 14th century. The chancel, which dates mainly to the early 13th century, is separated from the nave by a chancel arch and is of two bays.^[1] It opens on either side into a chapel, the arches supported on piers with stout attached semi-columns.

The church contains a font from about 1500 and a number of wooden fittings from the 17th century including the pulpit, and galleries at the ends of each aisle adjacent to the tower which were installed in 1632.^[1] In 2010 the design of these galleries was reproduced in the building of a gallery at the end of the nave to support the new organ, installed in 2011.^[2]

The chancel contains a three-light window with late 20th-century glass by Patrick Reyntiens depicting the Adoration of the Lamb.^[3] Other windows contain 19th- and 20th-century stained glass by Hardman of Birmingham, Burlison and Grylls, George Farmiloe and Caroline Benyon.^[3]

type=printed

city/ region=odiham

period=post-war (1945 - present)

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size=continental/ modern (150x100mm)