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All Saints is the Parish Church of Awbridge and belongs to the Church of England, in the Diocese of Winchester.

Information may also be found in the parish magazine, Five Alive, and the Awbridge Newsletter.

 

Directions: Take the A27 from Romsey towards Salisbury. In two miles, at Shootash, turn right into Danes Road. Click here for a map.

 

All Saints, Awbridge is a Grade II listed building.

 

The particulars, taken from the description held by Test Valley Borough Council, are as follows.

 

Designed by J. Colson and completed in 1876. Squared rubble Swanage stone and Bath stone dressings, old plain tiled roof.

 

Plan: chancel and nave with SE vestry and NW porch. East end has pointed 3-light trefoil window with trefoiled circular tracery in the head. Below is a string cill course which drops either side and runs round diagonal buttresses with gables and sloping tops and along sides. Sides have two trefoiled lancets with hood moulds and butresses between.

 

Nave: to SE gabled vestry, with vault under, shouldered door to west and 2-light trefoiled plate tracery window to south end. Nave has on both sides stepped buttresses to east and between bays with to east 2-light pointed trefoiled window with trefoil in head, single light similar in next bay, 2-light similar in next bay and in west bay to south 2-light similar. To north, gabled porch with buttresses to sidfes on end and pointed door of moulded archon foliated capitals on nook shafts. West end has two tall single-light trefoilled windows and rose window of cinquefoils in gable. Diagonal corner buttresses.

 

Above is a weatherboarded bellcote of tapering lower section to bellstage of 3-trefoilled openings with quatrefoils openings over on each side and short broach spire.

 

Inside: chancel: stained glass east window and east side window. Wagon roof. Reredos, panelling and rails. Chancel arch risding from foliated corbels. Nave: side windows 20th century stained glass. Open arch-braced roof. Contemporary furnishings, carved timber pulpit and stone font.

 

Modern addition: in 1990, an annex comprising lower and upper rooms, kitchen and toilet areas.

 
 
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