St Boniface, Nursling
St Boniface, Nursling
St Boniface at Nursling, Hampshire, is a Grade II* parish church of Saxon origin, mainly fourteenth-century, restored by G. E. Street in 1881, in the Diocese of Winchester.
- Location
- Nursling, Hampshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Hampshire
- City / town
- Nursling
- Address
- Church Lane, Nursling, Hampshire, SO16 0YB
- Postcode
- SO16 0YB
- Built
- Saxon origin, mainly C14, with C13 transept; restored 1881
- Architect
- G. E. Street (1881 restoration)
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Boniface
- Diocese
- Winchester
- Parish
- Nursling and Rownhams
- Grade
- II*
- Style
- Decorated
- Materials
- Rubble stone, tile roof, shingled broach spire
- Grid reference
- SU 359 164
- Opening hours
- Open on Fridays: 10am to 12.30pm. Many visitors from many parts of the world come to visit our church. If you are planning a visit at other times, do contact us in advance, and we can ensure the church is open for you.
- Access
- Accessible toilets nearby
Overview
Historic England records a parish church of Saxon origin, mainly fourteenth-century, with a thirteenth-century transept, restored by G. E. Street in 1881. The plan is an aisleless nave and chancel, south transept, and south porch beneath a tower. Walls are rubble stone with coupled fourteenth-century windows of Decorated tracery, a three-light west window with reticulated tracery, and a three-light cusped fifteenth-century transept window. The roof is tiled; the tower above eaves level is hung with shingles and has a shingled broach spire. The eastern part of the chancel is Victorian. Fittings include an Elizabethan pulpit and a mid-nineteenth-century Perpendicular octagonal font. The south transept holds the Jacobean tomb of Richard (d. 1613) and Maria (d. 1622) Mille. Listed Grade II* on 29 May 1957 (NHLE 1093670). The legal parish is Nursling and Rownhams.