2015

TQ8618 : Organ, St Mary's church, Udimore

taken 9 years ago, near to Udimore, East Sussex, England

Organ, St Mary's church, Udimore
Organ, St Mary's church, Udimore
Located in the west tower, the organ is by William Hawkins & Son, and has two manuals with pedals and 9 stops.
St Mary's church, Udimore

Grade I listed

The church dates from the 12th century onwards, and consists of a squat west tower, nave, spacious chancel and south porch.

The church is mentioned in the Domesday book, with the nave dating from the 12th century. Around 1200 a south aisle was added, the blocked arcade is the only part now visible. There were three arches.
The chancel was built in the early 13th century, the chancel arch has dogtooth mouldings on square responds.
The tower dates from circa 1230 and has a pyramidal roof which is only slightly taller than the rest of the church.
It is thought that the tower may have been intended to be higher, but possibly structural problems put a stop to this.
The south porch was added in the 19th century to the middle 15th century arch of the old south arcade.

In 1896 the church was in poor condition and is the next year restoration started. The work continued for several years. It was sympathetically done by the architect A. H. Skipworth.

The south west nave window contains fragments of mediaeval glass and there is one small stained-glass window above the porch, otherwise the glass is clear, apart from two engraved glass windows.
There are several text memorial brasses situated in the chancel floor, and various 19th-century monuments. There are also several mediaeval piscinae, and a 13th century aumbry.
A two manual organ is in a loft under the west tower by William Hawkins and son.


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Julian P Guffogg   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Sunday, 22 March, 2015   (more nearby)
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Monday, 23 March, 2015
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OSGB36: geotagged! TQ 8634 1895 [10m precision]
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