Yateley / Yateleye / Yately / Yeatley / Yhateleghe
Image copyright © Len Williams, 2014
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view of church exterior - north view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Peter's Church, Yateley, is built on the site of a small Saxon church which is said to have been burnt down about 750 AD. The earliest record of the church appears in the Domesday Book (1080 AD), which mentions a chapel belonging to the church of Crondall, a village about 10 miles away. Only the north wall was left, and when the Normans extended the church in about 1100 AD, it was raised and extended to its present length as far as the tower arch. By 1220 AD the east end (which is now the Chapel) was completed, and in the 14th century an aisle was added on the south side. In 1878 a major restoration was carried out when a vestry was added behind the present altar and the arch was built by Sir Arthur Blomfield, a well known Victorian architect. A choir vestry was added in 1900 and in 1967 a clergy vestry was built on the foundations of an anchorite's cell, which is now used as a Prayer Cell."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Len Williams, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 March 2014 by Len Williams [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3887763] [accessed 31 July 2018]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "On the night of 5th May 1979 St Peter's Church, Yateley, was burnt down for a second time, this time by an arsonist, leaving only the walls, the charred timbers of the tower and the cracked bells In the rebuilding of the church, great care was taken to save what could be preserved and at the same time to enlarge and modernise the building, extending some 25 feet into the churchyard on the south side. Single lines of darker tiles in the current church floor show approximately where the south wall of the Saxon church was and also the line of the south wall of St. Peter's before the fire. Two and a half years after the fire, the new St. Peter's was consecrated by the Bishop of Winchester on the 21st November 1981."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Len Williams, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 March 2014 by Len Williams [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3887766] [accessed 31 July 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0