St Swithun's Church is the smallest ancient Church of England parish church in the English county of Hampshire. Newnham and Nately Scures are part of the Anglican United Parish which includes: Greywell, Mapledurwell and Up Nately, which in turn are covenanted with a further seven churches in the area.

History

The Church was built of flint and rubble around 1175. It is considered to be the best largely unspoilt example of a Norman single-cell apsidal church in England. There are only four examples remaining in the UK. A gallery was installed in 1591 and rebuilt together with the roof in 1786. Binstead stone forms the door and window dressings.

St. Swithun's, Nately Scures

Services

Services normally take place in each of the churches within the United Parish including St Swithun's twice per month. The church is never locked by day.

St. Swithun's, Nately Scures

Burials

General The 1st Baron Dorchester

Colonel Thomas Carleton

Lieutenant-General Sir Christopher Wallace

Violet Edith Potter

External links

St Swithun's Church Nately Scures England - Showing Memorial for Guy Carleton, Governor of Quebec, and Thomas Carleton, Governor of New Brunswick

St. Swithun's, Nately Scures

Buildings and structures completed in 1175

12th-century church buildings in England

Church of England church buildings in Hampshire

Churches with Norman architecture

Basingstoke and Deane