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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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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. |
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