St Mary   Ellingham    Hampshire

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The Brick south porch is dated 1720, the west facade 1747. Originally it probably went up as a tower. The doorway has rustication of alternating sizes. Arched window above. Early c.13 north doorway, blocked. C.13 chancel, but mostly Victorian. (The restoration by Sir T.G. Jackson went on from 1869 into the 1880's. NT) The church is very fully furnished. SCREEN. Perpendicular; simple, single-light divisions. Attached to it an HOURGLASS. Above it a plaster TYMPANEUM with texts. PULPIT. Jacobean, on short legs like those of a stool. REREDOS. A beautiful piece of c. 1700, now at the west end. Doric pilasters, grouped. Open Pediment with a dove in the middle. Two putto heads below the pediment. Palm-fronds at the foot. In the centre a pedimented panel in which a PAINTING by a Dutch (or German?) Mannerist of c. 1600. FAMILY PEW. Jacobean (?), but the foliage spandrels not original. ORGAN CASE. By Jackson, florid Gothic. STAINED GLASS. By Kempe, south side 1896, chancel south 1902. PLATE. Chalice of 1652; Flagon and Almsdish of 1742.