SEVEN UP - ST MARY LISS

 

Four Blomfield churches grouped around Petersfield. St Peter’s on Froxfield Green is the smallest, a Tee-Shaped form with Nave and Chancel under a single roof, with entrance porch and Vestry either side of the West end. A cute little, sharply pointed Bell turret completes the composition.  Funded by William Nicholson a London Gin Distiller

 

  

I have extended the grid of model lines to keep the Blomfield churches in good order, with model text labels to jog my memory. With some 400 churches in my study area, there’s no way I will be able to keep them all in my head.  So those four churches in the middle of my study area have been added to the two in the top-left corner near Hungerford, and the one in Gosport on the South coast.

 

Holy Trinity Privett is at the other end of the scale. Oversized for its community it’s now “redundant” but in good condition. Also funded by Nicholson, balancing the celestial books perhaps. Probably an element of showing off also, having bought the nearby Basing Park, a decent sized country estate. Apart from inheriting the Gin business, he was a gentleman cricketer, President and benefactor of the MCC and a Member of Parliament for Petersfield.

 

I’m using face-based “recess” families to represent windows and doors, then painting on a material parameter for glass, wood, louvres etc.  Variable depth so I can push right through the extrusion that represents a wall within the master family. (a church)  It’s a quick and lightweight approach to producing a basic massing model of a series of churches for comparison purposes.

 

Church number seven is St Mary Liss. The Nave and chancel are by Blomfield, but the tower was added later by and interesting architect of the early 20^th century.  Working in the style that is sometimes called the New Tradition, (think Lutyens or the younger Scott who did the power stations in London and the red phone box)  Edward Maufe also designed St John the Evangelist in Hook, which I visited in August 2024.  There’s a blog post here.  https://grevity.blogspot.com/2024/08/church-house-school.html