St George, Damerham
St George, Damerham
St George’s is a Grade I parish church on Church Lane in Damerham, on the Hampshire–Wiltshire border in the New Forest, in the Diocese of Salisbury and the Western Downland group of parishes.
- Location
- Damerham, Hampshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Hampshire
- City / town
- Damerham
- Address
- Church Lane, Damerham, Hampshire, SP6 3JF
- Postcode
- SP6 3JF
- Built
- C12 origins; C13 south chapel and aisle; C15 chancel and north aisle rebuilt, south porch added; C17 tower rebuilt
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- George
- Diocese
- Salisbury
- Parish
- Damerham
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Norman and Gothic
- Materials
- Flint and squared ironstone, part rendered; Chilmark stone dressings; plain tile roof
- Grid reference
- SU 107 158
- Opening hours
- 10am to 4pm daily.
- Access
- Accessible toilets in church. Level access to the main areas
Overview
The manor was a Saxon royal estate; in the mid-tenth century King Edmund granted Damerham to Queen Æthelflæd on condition that it pass to Glastonbury Abbey, which held it in 1066 and 1086. The listing describes a church of twelfth-century origins with a south transeptal tower; a twelfth-century north aisle and chapel; a thirteenth-century south chapel and aisle; fifteenth-century rebuilding of the chancel and north aisle and addition of the south porch; and a seventeenth-century rebuilding of the tower. Walls are flint and squared ironstone with Chilmark dressings.
The south porch retains a twelfth-century tympanum of St George, a thirteenth-century mandorla, and a finely carved fifteenth-century wagon roof. Wagon roofs with moulded ribs and bosses also cover the nave and chancel. The church was transferred from Wiltshire to Hampshire with the parish in 1895.