Monuments
New Zealand and Brockenhurst
The New Zealand Cemetery at Brockenhurst in the New Forest, is a beautiful calm and serene place where over one hundred headstones remember those who died in the hospital in Brockenhurst.
Read MoreFroyle Village of Saints
Froyle in Hampshire is known as the village of saints because of its intriguing saints statues which gaze out from many of the village houses.
Read MorePetersfield War Memorial
The Petersfield War Memorial was designed by Harry Inigo Triggs who lived at the house he designed, Little Boarhunt in Liphook Hampshire
Read MoreSir Thomas Sopwith Aviator
Sir Thomas Sopwith pioneer and aviator lies buried in the churchyard in Little Somborne Hampshire. His planes won the battle in the skies during WWI and WWII, with the Sopwith Camel and the development along with his friend Harry Hawker, the Hurricane.
Read MoreSecrets of Winchester’s Mortuary Chests
The Winchester Cathedral mortuary boxes containing the remains of our earliest Saxon kings are being examined to see if the bones can be connected to King Cnut.
Read MoreBishop Curle’s Riddle
Winchester Cathedral is full of odd little carvings and riddles, look out for Bishop Curle’s Latin inscription on the West Front
Read MoreWonderful WWI Memorial at Cheriton
The moving WWI memorial in Cheriton church in memory of the four nephews of Mary Augusta Phipps Egerton
Read MoreThe Butter Cross of Winchester
The Butter Cross of Winchester which stands in the High St, dates from the C15th but could have replaced an earlier Anglo Saxon or Norman preaching cross.
Read MoreTitchfields Great Wriothesley Monument
The Wriothesley monument is a wonderful Renaissance monument in the ancient St Peter’s church in Titchfield Hampshire. It is the family memorial to the hugely influential Wriothesley family of Tudor England.
Read MoreCharles Dickens Statue Porstmouth
The Charles Dickens Statue Guildhall Square Portsmouth was unveiled on 7th February 2014, two hundred years after his birth in the city of Portsmouth.
Read MoreSt Mary’s Church Avington
St Mary’s Church Avington is a wonderful example of a virtually untouched, Georgian church. With wonderful box pews and beautiful barrel ceiling. The memorial to Lady Carnarvon is particularly interesting.
Read MoreSt Peter’s and St Paul’s Church Exton
The C13th flint church of St Peter’s and St Paul’s nestles into the Meon Valley in Hampshire as if it has been there as long as the river itself. It has an unusual weeping chancel.
Read MoreRichard Cromwell
Richard Cromwell Lord Protector of England and son of Oliver Cromwell, lived at Hursley in Hampshire and is buried in the church of All Saints Hursley.
Read MorePaulet Family in Hampshire
The Paulet family are an ancient and important family in Hampshire and also played an important role in the history of England. Memorials to the Paulet family and its variant spellings abound in churches around the county.
Read MoreHoly Trinity Ashe
The church of Holy Trinity at Ashe in Hampshire has a wonderful history with connections to Jane Austen and the Charge of the Light Brigade
Read MoreUpper Wield Church
The church of St James in Upper Wield Hampshire is one of those simple C12th churches whose very simplicity give a sense of its ancient past and a present day serenity. See the monument to a member of one of Hampshire’s important families, the Wallops.
Read MorePetersfield War Memorial
The Petersfield War Memorial was designed by Harry Inigo Triggs who lived at the house he designed, Little Boarhunt in Liphook Hampshire
Read MoreSt Mary and St Michael Stoke Charity
The church of St Mary and St Michael Stoke Charity was described by John Betjeman ‘This gem like little church is a veritable treasure house of beautiful things and in itself it is also of great beauty’. Enough said….
Read MoreSt Peter’s Church St Mary Bourne
St Peter’s Church St Mary Bourne is full of puzzles, defaced crusader tombs, a rare Tournai marble font and architecture that bewilders.
Read MoreAll Saints Church Farringdon
All Saints Church Farringdon has some fascinating and intriguing characters associated with it, from eminent scientists, to world renowned authors and builders of follys. Such a great deal of history connected with a small place of thatched cottages and pretty country lanes.
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