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unusual facts about All Saints Church, Odiham



Air Warfare Centre

It has a training branch nearby as a lodger unit of RAF Cranwell and other branches elsewhere, including at High Wycombe, Brize Norton, Boscombe Down, and Odiham.

All Saints Church, Alrewas

Alrewas at the time was a flourishing settlement in the ownership of Ælfgar, Earl of Mercia and it remained the property of King John until he granted it to Roger de Somerville to be followed by the Griffiths and later, the Turtons.

All Saints Church, Bakewell

It is used for, amongst other things, concerts by Bakewell Choral Society and the annual Commemoration service of Lady Manners School when they staff and pupils give thanks to Grace, Lady Manners, for founding their school in 1636.

In the Vernon Chapel (off the South aisle) there are several magnificent tombs: Sir Thomas Wendesley (killed at the Battle of Shrewsbury in 1403; John Vernon of Haddon Hall, who died in 1477; and Sir George Vernon and his two wives.

There is also a monument to their son, George Manners and his wife Grace.

All Saints Church, Barrowby

Before the early 19th century a church band played for All Saints' services, after which a church organ was installed.

All Saints Church, Claverley

The monument to Sir Robert Broke, who died in 1558, and his two wives is in alabaster with three recumbent effigies on a tomb-chest, and children standing around the sides.

All Saints Church, East Horndon

On the north wall of the nave are monuments to the Powell family, forerunners of Robert Baden-Powell.

All Saints Church, Ecclesall

In the thirteenth century Ralph de Ecclesall gave his mill on the River Sheaf to the monks of Beauchief Abbey.

All Saints Church, Higher Kinnerton

An unusual feature of Hope-Jones' planned organ design was a Great to Swell 2nd Touch coupler, and a knob for this exists on the console, though it appears to have never been connected.

All Saints Church, Hollingbourne

Other memorials include those to Martin Barnham (d. 1610, father of Sir Francis Barnham), Dame Grace Gethin (d. 1697), Samuel Plummer (d. 1705), Baldwin Duppa (d. 1737) and Baldwin Duppa (d. 1764)

All Saints Church, Kingston upon Thames

In the following years Kingston was the site of the consecrations of Edmund I in 940, Eadred in 946, Eadwig in 955, Edward the Martyr in 975 and, finally, Ethelred, who was crowned by Bishop Oswald of Worcester in 978.

All Saints Church, Lawshall

The Church of All Saints' Lawshall is part of a united Benefice which includes the Anglican congregations of six parishes and six places of worship covering Bradfield Combust, Great Whelnetham, Hawstead, Lawshall, Nowton and Stanningfield.

All Saints Church, Little Wenham

To the east of the north door is a wall painting of Saint Christopher and the Christ Child.

All Saints Church, Maidstone

Founded by Archbishop of Canterbury William Courtenay in 1395 as part of a new College of All Saints, the church replaced an earlier one on the site dedicated to St Mary.

All Saints Church, Odiham

The chancel contains a three-light window with late 20th-century glass by Patrick Reyntiens depicting the Adoration of the Lamb.

All Saints Church, Orton

In the south aisle is a window designed by Beatrice Whistler (the wife of James McNeill Whistler), made by Campbell, Smith and Company in 1892; one designed by F.

All Saints Church, Oxford

All Saints Church is on the north side of the High Street in central Oxford, England, on the corner of Turl Street.

All Saints Church, Patcham

The commissioners produced a book, The Book of All The Auncient Ancient Customs heretofore used amonge the fishermen of the Toune of Brighthelmston, whose orders were enshrined in law.

All Saints Church, Peckham

Two further services, BBC Songs of Praise services, "Peckham Praise" and "Urban Hope" were subsequently recorded and broadcast in September 2010 and February 2011.

All Saints Church, Poplar

Great steps were built up to the new carved high altar which was commissioned from Oberammergau by the Rector, the Revd Arthur Chandler, later Bishop of Bloemfontein.

All Saints Church, Siddington

There is a memorial to Lieutenant Colonel Wilfrith Elstob VC DSO MC (1888 – 1918), recipient of the Victoria Cross in World War II, whose father was Vicar of All Saints.

All Saints Church, Ulcombe

The walls feature wall paintings in various locations including St Michael defeating Satan, a number of crucifixions and Dives and Lazarus.

All Saints Church, Wraxall

The large churchyard contains several monuments to the Gibbs family which owned the nearby Tyntesfield Estate, which has recently been purchased by the National Trust following the death of Baron Wraxall.

City Church, Oxford

# All Saints Church, High Street (1896–1971), deconsecrated and now the library of Lincoln College

Dorchester Abbey

In 1993 a Union Jack that had been draped over the coffins of prisoners of war at Batu Lintang camp, Sarawak, Borneo was placed in the abbey together with two wooden memorial plaques; they had formerly been housed at All Saints Church, Oxford.

Fleet, Hampshire

By 1860 Charles Lefroy, a local squire, commissioned All Saints Church, Fleet - in the Blue Triangle area in memory of his wife who had died in 1857.

Granville Penn

A supporter of the Odiham Society, he met Charles Benoît Vial de Sainbel who was in England for the second time to try to set up a veterinary school, such as existed at Lyon; and whose profile was raised when he was asked to dissect the famous racehorse Eclipse.

Henry Lafont

He moved to No. 1 School of Army Co-operation at Old Sarum on 29 July and then went to Odiham on 10 August where he flew 15 hours on Tiger Moths and Hectors.He was posted to 6 OTU, Sutton Bridge on the 19 August, converting to Hurricanes and joined No. 245 Squadron at Aldergrove on 11 September.

Henry Sherburne

After Henry's great grandfather quit Stonyhurst for Oxford, England, where he dwelled in Beam Hall, Henry's father Joseph moved to Odiham, where Henry was born.

John Dryden

Dryden was born in the village rectory of Aldwincle near Thrapston in Northamptonshire, where his maternal grandfather was Rector of All Saints.

John Leventhorpe

He was granted the manor of Ugley in Essex, and in 1399 he became constable of Odiham castle and keeper of the royal manor there.

Kit Pedler

Pedler is buried at All Saints' Church in the Kent village of Graveney, where he lived before moving to nearby Doddington.

Lambeth Orchestra

It gives a regular series of 6 concerts each year at All Saints Church, West Dulwich and St John's Waterloo.

No. 63 Squadron RAF

On 15 June 1942 No. 63 Squadron was reformed from part of No. 239 Squadron at Gatwick, Sussex, and commenced flying from Odiham with Alison engined Mustangs in January 1943.

Odium

Odiham, a village in the Hart district of Hampshire, England

RAF Glatton

The 457th Bomb Group has a memorial dedicated to the men who lost their lives flying from Glatton in All Saints Church Conington churchyard.

Reformed Church of Beacon

The Reformed Church of Beacon shows the influence of William Butterfield's contemporary All Saints Church in London's Fitzrovia neighborhood, and writings by John Ruskin such as Seven Lamps of Architecture and Stones of Venice.

Richard Carmarden

Carmarden married firstly Alice More, the daughter and coheir of William More of Odiham, Surrey, by whom he had two sons, Richard Carmarden and Nathaniel Carmarden, and a daughter, Mary Carmarden, who married Thomas Wigg (d.1602).

Sir William Bass, 2nd Baronet

In 1947, along with others, Bass continued the family tradition of acting as a benefactor to the Burton upon Trent area by donating a peal of five bells to All Saints Church to be installed as a war memorial.

Sleep Room

In 2004 Sleep Room once again stepped into the recording studio, this time opting for the professional services of producer and engineer Lewis Childs and Earth Terminal in Odiham.

St John's, Redhill

Pearson's building is typical of his major churches, and shares characteristic features with such buildings as St Stephen, Bournemouth, All Saints, Hove, St Augustine, Kilburn and St John, South Norwood.

St Margaret's Church, West Hoathly

An ancient Sussex custom, also encountered at a few other churches nearby (such as those at Lindfield and Ardingly), applied for many years at West Hoathly: every landowner in the parish was responsible for the upkeep of a specific section of the churchyard wall.

Three Castles Path

The footpath passes through the towns of New Alresford, Hartley Wintney, Sandhurst, Bracknell and Ascot and the villages of Martyr Worthy, Itchen Abbas, Abbotstone, Upper Wield, Ellisfield, Bradley, Greywell, North Warnborough and Odiham.


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