v INDEPENDENT, LOCAL AND PROUD v 7th August 2025 • The HERALD • Page 59 Everyone welcome to our Services SUNDAY MORNING SERVICE 10.30AM 1st Sunday of the month Communion HAMPTON LANE, BLACKFIELD SO45 1XA You are invited to BETHANY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP Rollestone Road, Holbury Every Sunday, 6.20pm for 6.30pm Christian Worship & Teaching 023 8089 2153 Everyone Welcome Bespoke Memorial Jewellery made with Love and Respect for you and your loved ones Telephone - 07879 856552 www.newforestmemorialjewellery.com Also find us on New Forest Funerals A truly independent funeral directors and monumental masons The Waterside’s only independent funeral directors. We will help you create a funeral as unique as the person you wish to remember. From elaborate to simple, or unattended, we will guide you through every step of the way at your pace. 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We also have a grand ra e with many wonderful prizes donated by local businesses. ese include a ernoon tea at the Montagu Arms in Beaulieu, a Fairweather’s voucher, family tickets to Longdown Farm, New Forest Wildlife Park, Mottisfont, Beaulieu Motor Museum, an Anker Bluetooth speaker kindly donated by TJ Transport, Prosecco kindly donated by TMT Legal Services, and a range of other prizes. Please email: o ce@stjohnshythe. org if you would like to buy any ra e tickets – these are £1 each or £5 for a strip of ve. e fair will start at 10am and will run through to 1pm. We will be serving refreshments in the church alongside the fair and we would love to see you there! If you would like to have a table at the fair, please get in touch with the Parish O ce as we still have a few spaces available. A LOOK AT HISTORIC CHURCHES OF THE NEW FOREST: ST. PETER’S CHURCH BRAMSHAW History series by David and Brenda Quensell St. Peter’s church Bramshaw stands on a natural rocky spur about half a mile from the village overlooking the B3079 road to Nomansland and Landford. At one time this road went past the eastern end of the church, through what is now the lower churchyard and formed the boundary between Hampshire and Wiltshire and, until 1964 it was also the boundary of the New Forest. Bramshaw is unique in that it is the only New Forest parish that is in the diocese of Salisbury rather than Winchester. ere is a legend that William Rufus stabled his horses in the church that previously stood on this site, but there is no mention of a church in the Domesday Book, so the story seems unlikely. e rst mention of the present church comes when it was transferred from an anonymous priory or cell belonging to the Premonstratensian Canons into the possession of the Dean and Chapter of Salisbury in 1158. e oldest part of the church is the North Wall to the west of the North Transept which dates from the l2th century, while the rest of the wall belongs to the 19th century. e remainder of the Nave walls are mainly 13th century although the south wall, including the south window may have been rebuilt two hundred years later. e roof also dates from the 15th century. In 1829 the South Transept complete with the belfry and the present transept were built on the foundations of the earlier fabric. Sometime later the mediaeval chancel was also demolished to be replaced by the present building. From the reformation to the 19th century the walls were decorated with “Godly Texts”, fragments of which can still be seen on the north wall. e Belfry houses two bells, the tenor, a long pear shaped bell is very rare and was rst cast in about 1250, while the other dates from the early part of the 17th century. e Font, inside the South Transept is of Caen stone and was e Nave looking towards the east wall and the altar carved in about 1250, although the plinth is relatively modern having been made in 1870. On the East Wall of the transept is to be found a memorial to seven members of the parish who decided to immigrate to America in 1912 and subsequently lost their lives when their ship the Titanic struck an iceberg and sank with heavy loss of life. e North Transept was built by the Eyre family for the use of their relatives, friends and household sta . e hatchments above the transept archway record the death of George Eyre in 1837 and of his two wives Frances Hulse and Maria Hayes. e West Gallery at one time occupied only the north-west corner of the nave but has been extended on several occasions and acquired its bow front in the 1840’s. e south gallery was added in 1829 and was intended “for the girls school and free sittings for the females only.” e Royal coat of arms on the front of the west gallery, in spite of bearing the “E II R” cipher and date 1975 is, in fact, those of William IV and date from 1830. From junction 1 of the M27 take the B3079 road to Brook and bear right at the public house/hotel towards Brook Hill. Drive straight through Bramshaw where the church will be found on the right immediately a er a right-hand bend. St. Peter’s church dominating the road
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