St Lawrence's Church, Weston Patrick

St Lawrence's Church, Weston Patrick
St Lawrence's Church, Weston Patrick
	St Lawrence's from the south
	Location within Hampshire
	Coordinates: 51°13′04″N1°00′49″W / 51.217707°N 1.013591°W
Location	Weston Patrick, Hampshire
Country	England
Denomination	Anglican
History
Founded	12th century, rebuilt 1868
Dedication	St Lawrence
Architecture
Status	Parish church
Functional status	Active
Heritage designation	Listed building – Grade II*
Architect(s)	Thomas Henry Wyatt
Style	Gothic Revival
Specifications
Materials	Stone, flint
Administration
Diocese	Winchester
Province	Canterbury
Clergy
Bishop(s)	Bishop of Winchester
Rector	The Revd Peter Dyson

Last updated February 23, 2019

St Lawrence's Church is an Anglican church in the village of Weston Patrick, Hampshire, England. It is a Grade II* listed building ^[1] and stands on the eastern side of the village near its highest point. English Heritage calls it a "small-scale gem of English Gothic".^[2]

The Church of England is the established church of England. The Archbishop of Canterbury is the most senior cleric, although the monarch is the supreme governor. The Church of England is also the mother church of the international Anglican Communion. It traces its history to the Christian church recorded as existing in the Roman province of Britain by the third century, and to the 6th-century Gregorian mission to Kent led by Augustine of Canterbury.

A church building or church house, often simply called a church, is a building used for Christian religious activities, particularly for Christian worship services. The term is often used by Christians to refer to the physical buildings where they worship, but it is sometimes used to refer to buildings of other religions. In traditional Christian architecture, the church is often arranged in the shape of a Christian cross. When viewed from plan view the longest part of a cross is represented by the aisle and the junction of the cross is located at the altar area.

Weston Patrick is a small village and civil parish in Hampshire. It is in the civil parish of Tunworth. It lies four miles (6 km) southeast from Basingstoke and covers an area of 1,183 acres (4.79 km²). Weston Patrick is divided from the neighbouring parish of Weston Corbett by the road leading to the village of Upton Grey.

History

Norman church

The only remaining part of the church that dates from the Norman period is the north doorway from the end of the 12th century, which has a rounded arch with a rolled edge and label with double-champfering.^[3] This is now topped with a timber gabled frame.^[1] A drawing dated c. 1810 shows that the east window was topped by a rounded Norman arch, where today it is a pointed Gothic arch.

The term Norman architecture is used to categorise styles of Romanesque architecture developed by the Normans in the various lands under their dominion or influence in the 11th and 12th centuries. In particular the term is traditionally used for English Romanesque architecture. The Normans introduced large numbers of castles and fortifications including Norman keeps, and at the same time monasteries, abbeys, churches and cathedrals, in a style characterised by the usual Romanesque rounded arches and especially massive proportions compared to other regional variations of the style.

19th-century rebuilding

The church was rebuilt on the site of the Norman church in the Gothic Revival style by Thomas Henry Wyatt, who is buried in the churchyard, and whose family still live in the village.^[2] When the family came to live in the village in the 1850s the original church, although still in use and officiated by Revd T. B. Round, was in a run-down state.^[2] Wyatt decided to appoint a rector in 1866 and build a parsonage for him, before the rebuilding of the church started in 1867–68.^[2] The builder was John Wilkes of North Waltham, and the cost was £1,692; of this, a subscription raised £691, and the Wyatt family paid the remainder.^[2] Revd Terry was the first rector of the church, which was consecrated in June 1868.^[2]

Thomas Henry Wyatt was an Anglo-Irish architect. He had a prolific and distinguished career, being elected President of the Royal Institute of British Architects 1870–73 and being awarded its Royal Gold Medal for Architecture in 1873. His reputation during his lifetime was largely as a safe establishment figure, and critical assessment has been less favourable more recently, particularly in comparison with his younger brother, the better known Matthew Digby Wyatt.

The exterior is flint and dressed in stone. The roof is red tiled, with a shingled broach spire on the west end, which Pevsner calls a "funny pagoda bell tower".^[4]

Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner was a German, later British scholar of the history of art, especially of architecture.

The nave and chancel are the same width,^[3] and the ceiling of the chancel is painted dark blue, with gold stars; the floor is paved with encaustic tiles.^[2] The organ, a Willis "Scudamore" model built by Henry Willis & Sons, is in a southern recess besides the chancel;^[2] it has Bourdon pipes and until 1965 was blown by hand.^[2] The bell turret with a single bell is at the western end.^[1] Pevsner notes there is "some rich foliage carving" inside the church.^[4] The east window was a gift from Thomas Henry Wyatt, and the three west windows, including the rose "Nativity" window, were made by Lavers and Barraud.^[2]

Henry Willis & Sons is a British firm of pipe organ builders founded in 1845. Although most of their installations have been in the UK, examples can be found in other countries.

Bourdon, bordun, or bordone normally denotes a stopped flute/flue type of pipe in an organ characterized by a dark tone, strong in fundamental, with a quint transient but relatively little overtone development. Its half-length construction make it especially well suited to low pitches, economical as well, and the name is derived from the French word for 'bumblebee' or 'buzz'.

On the church walls is a fragment of an embroidered altar cloth bearing the initials GG George Green, of Western Corbett House and IR, and the date 1682.^[1]

Gallery

The old church, c. 1810
The new church in 1868,
the year it was completed
Altar cloth fragment, dated 1682
Chancel ceiling
From north
Norman north doorway,
late 12th century
West "Nativity" window

External links

Official website

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References

1 2 3 4 "CHURCH OF ST. LAWRENCE". Historic England. Retrieved 16 December 2015.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Bedford, Hugh; Don, David (2009). Weston Patrick and Weston Corbett: The Tale of Two Villages. Locally printed. pp. 1–30.
1 2 "Parishes: Weston Patrick". British History Online. Retrieved 16 December 2015.
1 2 Pevsner, Nikolaus; Lloyd, David (2002). The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. p. 648. ISBN 0-300-09606-2.

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[hist-1] 1 2 3 4 "CHURCH OF ST. LAWRENCE". Historic England. Retrieved 16 December 2015.

[bed-2] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Bedford, Hugh; Don, David (2009). Weston Patrick and Weston Corbett: The Tale of Two Villages. Locally printed. pp. 1–30.

[bho-3] 1 2 "Parishes: Weston Patrick". British History Online. Retrieved 16 December 2015.

[pevs-4] 1 2 Pevsner, Nikolaus; Lloyd, David (2002). The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. p. 648. ISBN 0-300-09606-2.