Mattingley Church is a Grade I listed timber framed church. The walls are of vertical timbers filled in between with red brickwork set in herring-bone fashion.
The first church or chapel on the present site was probably built towards the end of the l4th century. In 1425 Pope Martin granted a licence for a cemetery at the Chapel because the inhabitants found it inconvenient to carry their dead to Heckfield; the land between the two places being frequently flooded.
Mattingley Church is a Grade I listed timber framed church. The building of the present church was probably started towards the end of the 15th Century. The walls are of vertical timbers filled in between with red brickwork set in herring-bone fashion, and plastered on the inside. The bricks are made as parallelograms and not oblongs, and seem to have been designed specifically for herringbone work. The bricks were likely to have been "burnt" on Hazeley Heath. Up to 1837 the whole building was the same width as the present chancel but in 1837 the Nave was widened and the porch in its present form added.
Over the west end of the nave is an oak shingled bell-turret with a pyramidal roof. There are two old bells; one undated, but from the shape and style, believed to be from the 13 century and the other from 15th century.
The Church has no patron saint - possibly because the original building on the site was, to start with, a moot hall - that is, a place where meetings were held. On the other hand it may have been because it was, in the early days, a "chapel of ease" to the Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels, Heckfield.
The above coordinates will take you to a big memorial for William Poulter
Died August AB CDEF aged GH
Final N51 18. E (E-F) B….W000 56. F (A-C) (B-G)
If you add up all the digits in the final coordinates it will come to 49
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