Whitwell

 

Whitwell is a small village in the south of the island, to the west of Ventnor. Whitwell is a close knit community; it has a church, pub and White Well after which the village was named

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Introduction

Seven centuries old, and in a garden blooming with flowers in due season, the church has a Tudor porch and a Tudor tower. It has lost its ancient wall-painting but keeps its ancient bell. A water colour of the painting hangs in the aisle; the original fell away after being recovered from many coats of whitewash. The old bell stands under the west window, ringing no more.

The oldest part of the walls is on the north side of the chancel arch, where there is 12th century carving. Long ago the chapel and the chancel were two places, used by two parishes and divided by a wall; in the 16th century the wall was transformed into a fine arch and became part of the Tudor church. There is a curious pillar which forms part of the chancel arch and nave arcades; it is of Purbeck marble and unlike any of the other pillars, evidently a misfit and much too short, for a long upper capital has been added to it. There is a tub-shaped font and a Jacobean pulpit and table. For altar rails the church has some delightful old carved benches, black and polished with age. A glass case on the wall holds a strange relic found when the roof was repaired in the last century, a finely carved wooden model in miniature of the Hands of Our Lord, bearing the prints of the nails.

Photographs
 



Whitwell parish church
 



An old village pump in Whitwell
 



Thatched cottage at Bank End Farm
 



The stone sheepwash
 



Looking across the open field over the infant Yar to Whitwell & St Catherine's Down
 



The White Horse Inn
Originally, with thatched roof BUT, with two recent severe fires, it now been replaced with tiles
 



Old Church House Cottages
 



Entrance to 1st property
 



Stockbridge House
 
 
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