Hartley Wespall

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Hartley Wespall
Hampshire
Church of St Mary the Blessed Virgin, Hartley Wespall.jpg
St Mary's, Hartley Wespall
Location
Grid reference: SU698582
Location: 51°19’6"N, 0°59’58"W
Data
Population: 241  (2011)
Post town: Hook
Postcode: RG27
Dialling code: 01256
Local Government
Council: Basingstoke and Deane
Parliamentary
constituency:
North East Hampshire

Hartley Wespall is a village in the north of Hampshire. It is near the larger village of Hook, which stands two and a half miles south-west of Hartley Wespall.

The parish church, St Mary Church, is flint with a tile-hung north tower. It was essentially reconstructed by George Gilbert Scott in 1868–69. It still has, as noted by Pevsner “one tremendous original feature, the early C14 timbers of the West Wall.”[1] The fourteenth century church is Grade I listed.[2]

John Keate, Head Master of Eton College from 1809 to 1834, was made rector here in 1824. He is buried in the church.[3]

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References

  1. Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Hampshire & The Isle of Wight, 1967 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09606-4
  2. National Heritage List 1339496: Church of St Mary the Blessed Virgin (Grade I listing)
  3. Mee, Arthur: The King's England: Hampshire with the Isle of Wight (Hodder & Stoughton)
    p 119