St Swithun's Church, Nately Scures
Nately Scures Parish Church | |
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Denomination | Church of England |
Churchmanship | Broad church |
History | |
Dedication | St Swithun |
Architecture | |
Style | Norman |
Administration | |
Province | Hampshire |
Diocese | Winchester |
Parish | Anglican United Parish |
Clergy | |
Priest(s) | Reverend Jane Leese |
Laity | |
Churchwarden(s) | Mrs Monica Wardrop and Mrs Gillian Rendall |
St Swithun's Church is the smallest ancient Church of England parish church in the English county of Hampshire. Newnham and Nately Scures are part of the Anglican United Parish which includes: Greywell, Mapledurwell and Up Nately, which in turn are covenanted with a further seven churches in the area.
History
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The Church was built of flint and rubble around 1175. It is considered to be the best largely unspoilt example of a Norman single-cell apsidal church in England. There are only four examples remaining in the UK. A gallery was installed in 1591 and rebuilt together with the roof in 1786. Binstead stone forms the door and window dressings.
Services
[edit]Services normally take place in each of the churches within the United Parish including St Swithun's twice per month. The church is never locked by day.
Burials
[edit]- General The 1st Baron Dorchester
- Colonel Thomas Carleton
- Lieutenant-General Sir Christopher Wallace
- Violet Edith Potter