New Forest Colbury Christ Church Churches Good example of late Victorian Eling, Copythorne, Marchwood, Gothic revival Colbury and Netley Marsh . An attractive late Victorian church by Benjamin 2 Ferry, completed in 1870 and paid for by Marianne Ibbotson after she inherited the Barker-Mill estate. She chose to live at Eling rather than at Mottisfont Abbey (now owned Images top left to right: Colbury font, Cultural heritage services at the Eling 10th century grave marker, Marchwood font. by the National Trust) New Forest National Park Authority . The church interior has hardly changed from The National Park Authority has specialist advisors the time it was built including archaeologists, building conservation, . The graveyard has unmarked burials of inmates building design and landscape staff. of the Ashurst Workhouse and five Second World War graves 2 1 We seek to conserve and enhance the special 5 character of the New Forest by encouraging the . Near the Lych gate is the grave of Charley Shrave, 3 4 sympathetic management and use of historic a railway workman, with a carving of a train sites, buildings and areas and protecting them . Unusual tapered open bellcote from decay or damaging change. We ensure . Interesting internal decorated tiled wall and that architecturally sensitive sites and areas are floor surfaces and an external style roof to the properly identified, treated and integrated into their internal porch. environment to best effect. Some of the work is required by law, but emphasis Not to scale N is also placed on offering guidance Printed on FSC environmentally friendly paper. NPA 00279. September 2014. to communities so New Forest churches that the special places and features of the National Park 11 St Mary, Eling are safeguarded for 22 St Mary, Copythorne future generations. 33 St John The Apostle, Marchwood

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© Crown copyright. All rights reserved New Forest National Park Authority. Call: 01590 646600 Licence 1000114703, 2014. Write to: New Forest National Park Authority, Lymington Town Hall, Avenue Road, Lymington, SO41 9ZG. Find out more For other churches leaflets, visit Email: [email protected] www.newforestnpa.gov.uk/churches www.christchurchcolbury.hampshire.org.uk Visit: www.newforestnpa.gov.uk The churches at Copythorne, Netley Netley Marsh St Matthew Eling St Mary Marchwood St John The Apostle Marsh, Marchwood and Colbury were Attractive stone built church Church by the waterside Church spire dominates local landscape all built in the 19th century to serve . . . the historic and vast parish of Eling. Designed by James Park Harrison of Oxford, 10th century grave markers recovered during A lofty church of 1843 with grand internal completed in 1855 and strongly influenced by excavations along with evidence that the church proportions, designed by the Irish architect John Eling church was saved from total the high church ‘Oxford Movement’ and one of was originally cruciform in plan MacDuff Derick in an Early English Gothic style demolition when the south aisle of its leaders John Keble at Hursley . 16th century Venetian painting of the last supper . Contains revived medieval decorative schemes the church was enlarged and rebuilt . Unusual cast iron grave markers in the . 18th century monuments by the nationally- . Funding was provided by Mr Horatio Francis as part of a major, yet relatively churchyard significant Flemish sculptor John Rysbrack Kingsford Holloway of Marchwood Park, now sympathetic, restoration. . Double chancel arch to support lower stone (Jan Michiel Rijsbrack 1694-1770) Marchwood Priory Hospital; he had strong stage of the external bell turret that is covered connections to Oxford Come and discover the fascinating . Tudor tower late 16th or early 17th century. in wooden shingles Stone for the tower was shipped by water . Samuel Wilberforce, famous for his opposition New Forest National Park and its rich . Generally plain interior with a 15th century to Eling creek to Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, cultural heritage. style font and carvings of a squirrel and oak . Very fine and unusual 13th century chancel son of William Wilberforce, and slave trade leaves in the chancel arch and medieval nave roof abolitionist, attended the consecration of the building . Typical Victorian decorative floor tiles in . The local preacher was evicted by the chancel. Parliamentarian soldiers and Richard Cromwell, . The font is a partial copy of the 12th century son of Oliver, presided at a wedding at the font in Winchester Cathedral – see illustration church. The local clerk expressed his opinions of detail in his record, ‘Lord Protector Richard Cromwell, . An unaltered historic pipe organ by Bishop Copythorne St Mary or so he calls himself’. and Starr of 1877 Attractive brick-built church and tower . A range of stained glass windows. . Built in 1834 and designed by Thomas Benham, a Southampton architect . The later chancel and other alterations were designed in 1892 by William Butterfield, better known for his multi-coloured (polychromatic) brick buildings as at Keble College, Oxford . The 1922 tower clock is a World War I memorial . The Memorial tablet to two World Wars is made from timber from H.M.S. Britannia (1869-1905), a Dartmouth cadet training ship.

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