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NOTES ON THE CHURCHES OF BOSCOMBE, LDMISTON, 



WINTERBORNE GUNNER, WINTERSLOW, FARLEY, 

 PITTON, WEST GRIMSTEAD, and IVYCHURCH PRIORY. 



By C. E. Ponting, P.S.A. 



The Chukch of S. Andrew, Boscombe. 



Chancel and nave with wooden bell-cot on west gable, and north 

 transept. 



The walls of the nave and chancel (other than the east wall) 

 appear to be entirely fourteenth century work, and the windows 

 (with the exception of the eighteenth century ones in the north and 

 south walls of the chancel) to have been all square-headed; there 

 remain unaltered in the following positions, two two-light on south 

 and one on north of nave ; one three-light in the west wall of the 

 nave and a similar one in the east wall of the chancel, but the latter 

 has been changed to a pointed window, probably at the date cut 

 over it — 1755, when the east wall was rebuilt, and brick courses 

 were introduced into the plinth. 



The chancel has a priest's door in the south wall : the nave has 

 a doorway in the south wall with semi-circular arch having a 

 sundial cut on it ; there is also a small wooden window, probably 

 introduced to light the pulpit. 



A transept of Elizabethan character was built out from the 

 north side of the nave, possibly by Richard Hooker, who was 

 rector from 1591 to 1595, and whose discourses doubtless attracted 

 large congregations ; it has a four-centred doorway in the east 

 wall and a five-light transomed window in the north gable ; it is 

 open to the nave at its south end for the full width. 



The pulpit is of the period indicated by the record cut on it : — 

 H. S. 1633 — I. D., and the block of four pews on the south of the 



