All Saints Hinton Ampner

A visit to Hinton Ampner House gave me the opportunity  of visiting this church. There is little I can tell you about the church other than parts of it date back to the 13th century and restored in the 19th Century. If you visit the house then it taking time to visit the church is worth while to look round

Walking into the Gardens you see a beautiful view of the church and tower

The church sits in it's own walled area

View of the church as you go through the gate

Looking towards the west end

The chancel end with some of the graves

Along the South side of the church are many older graves and tombs

Like this with moss growing on it

Round the North side

Moss covers the base of this cross above while ivy gets a hold of this tomb

Much of the churchyard is covered in leaves form the trees nearby

While moss grows on the headstones

Over in one are are a set of family graves

Old and with moss growing on  them

Many are hidden in the older trees in the churchyard

Inside the porch a flower arrangement greets you

The church was a lot lighter inside than I expected, the photos are all taken by hand or with a phone as I did not have a tripod

The Chancel

Altar with oak panelling behind

The Altar cross and stained glass windows which look quite modern

Floral display

Looking out of the chancel and into the nave which had people from the house visiting. Another looking down from the pulpit

Some of the memorials you can see in the chancel

Memorial to the Greenwood Family who's vault is nearby

This memorial is in the nave and is in Latin so I'm afraid I cannot translate it

The plaque is nearby and tells you where the above memorial came from

The memorial on the left is on the North wall of the nave the right hand one is the second one from St Mary's Laverstoke

These tombs are in the chancel. Ralf Dutton was the last baron and on his death the house was left to the National Trust

Rather stunning memorial  in the chancel

The memorial on the left can be seen opposite the one above in the chancel while the one to the right is nearby

Some nice stained glass can also be seen in the church

These two standing out

Near the entrance to the church is this memorial and below it the font

I'll leave you with this shot of the cross and panelling behind the altar

Do have a wonderful weekend

St Andrew Collingbourne Ducis

My wife & I were at a dog show in the village a few years ago so while it was going on I took the opportunity to look round and came across the church. The history I found came off Wikipedia
  St Andrew (St Mary's until some time before 1786) is from the early 13th century. Alterations in the 14th century included the addition of the tower, which was rebuilt in the 15th. In 1856 the chancel was narrowed.
Sorry but it is not a long blog as this was before I took a big interest in churches but I hope I gave you a feel of it. If I am ever down that way again I will make the effort for some new photos

 

The view you get walking past over the wall with quite a nice old churchyard

 The South side showing some of the churchyard

 The church sign, the Everleigh church is now redundant and run by the Church Conservation Trust

 Not sure where I saw this inside, would be nice to get 3% interest now

 The view along the nave

 and another to the back of the church

 last one showing the belltower.

Like I said sorry it is short but I did not spend a lot of time there hopefully I will return sometime

Have a wonderful weekend

Magdalen Hill Cemetery Winchester

The last place I visited on my Saturday tour The cemetery opened in 1914 and took over from the privately owned West Hill cemetery which was full and in financial difficulties. Originally the cemetery was run by the Winchester Burial board but now is  run under management by the City Council

 The main entrance to Winchester cemetery

The Cemetery lodge now used as an office

 War memorial which I think is a commonwealth cross of victory

If you look left at the junction you get this view of the cemetery

This is the cemetery to the fight of the road

Walking round the right hand fork you pass these amazing looking memorials all black marble. Some one told me the belonged to Travellers

further along you come to the Commonwealth War Graves

which date back to World War One

The cemetery looking towards the Cross

The Cross of Victory

Just up from that I noticed another cross surrounded by graves

This was in memory of the fallen Newfoundlanders

From that small cemetery you could look down over the rest of the cemetery

which had lots of different memorials

One unusual memorial on the left and a wooden cross to the right

This pillar stood out and was still looking good

Further up the cemetery you come across more war graves, these I think are people who served and when they passed away were given a commonwealth headstone

The memorial on the left is one of them A W Haydon was killed in action in 1940. His wide Vera died in 1997.
On the right is the Grave of Herman Blise from Wisconsin who died in 1918

There are quite a few graves like that in this are

some with different markers to other

some a lot more recent but all brothers in arms

The one here on the left is a little different the one on the right is not a war grave but had a coat of arms on it

From the look on this headstone Jack Crowson was of the Jewish Faith

There are a few war grave headstones like the one on the left which seem to be unique. On the right B Johnson was a fireman on the SS Pagasitikos 

Two RAF graves of F.N Healey and L.J. Kight you will find around the cemetery away from the rest of the war graves














At the present time they are extending the cemetery for future burials when the present one is full

Couple of the memorials that took my eye

The lower part of the cementery  looking towards the main entrance

I liked this cross with the two angels taking the diciest into heaven looking so happy

Looking up from the lower cemetery

Celtic Cross & anchor

There were a couple of this type of arch in the cemetery

This area beside the carpark is where the cremation memorials are

I'll leave you with my two favorite meorials, the child in the snowdrops is old and the name lost to time 

The sleeping angel more recent.

RIP Little ones.

Have a peaceful weekend