St Georges Hatford

 

 I took a chance on visiting this church after looking around Pusey and was unsure if it was going to be open. I did find it looked but after looking around it found it a very charming little church. There is quite some history on Wikipedia :-

"Hatford has had two Anglican parish churches. The later of these, the church of the Holy Trinity (built in 1873–4 to a design by William Wigginton) became dilapidated and was finally deconsecrated and sold in 1972, for use as a private dwelling. The older Saint George's was reopened in the same year, reroofed in 1973 and reglazed in 1974; reinstated as Hatford's place of worship.

St George's stands on the site of the Saxon church mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. It is mostly Early English Gothic, with a Norman south doorway to nave and chancel arch and a Norman font. One Saxon window is still visible. There is a sundial carved into the stone near the doorway.

On 29 April 1555 Anne Dudley, the widowed Countess of Warwick, and Sir Edward Unton of Wadley House were married at St George's. Anne was the daughter of Edward Seymour, the Duke of Somerset and niece to Jane Seymour, who married King Henry VIII."

 

The approach to the church from by the gate

 

Looking towards the west end an the entrance

 

The east end of the church

 

This is around the north side with a blocked off door

 The east end

 

 

The entrance door with stale tiles around the top for some protection

Closer view of the door an hinges, To the right you can see the lower part of three iron hinges that would have held a door, on the left the wooden lock
 

 I suspect this is the sundial they mentioned in the history which was a mass dial to tell people when the services were

 

 

It looks like there has been  a couple of mass dials made here

Head carving from Norman times

 

The old sundial is nearer the west end

 

Looking along the south side of the church were all you can see are a couple of family tombs at the end

 

This one is quite large and has a small fence around it

The other side one with an even taller fence

Going around the north side over by the wall you find a lot of headstones piled up

 

The door was looked but Looking through the windows you could see in the church. This is looking though the east window at the chancel

Looking through the window on the north side at the altar in the chancel

 

 

This is the other end of the chancel

 

This is going into the nave beside the chancel arch

 

at the west end by the font

 

Looking from the south west window, you can see a balcony to the left

 

Back to the chancel arch

 

The chancel where you can see a tomb recess with effigy in it 

That's all I could get of the church I will see if I can return to get photos inside as it really does look an interesting church to visit.

Till next time I wish you all a pleasant weekend