Churches, St Nicholas, South Boarhunt, Hampshire.

The church of St Nicholas in South Boarhunt is Grade I listed and is one of best most complete Saxon churches in the country. 

‘Without firm evidence for the date of the church, most published dates must be, to a great extent, conjecture.  Certainly the date of AD 1027, is no more than an assumption and the church may well have been built at any time between the early 8thC. and mid 11thC.   St Nicholas’ was undoubtedly built for a Saxon owner of a Manor, which at the time of the Domesday Survey appears to be the one owned by Earl Roger on as Estate recorded as Borhunte.’ SOURCE

It wasn’t open on my visit, but the church yard and the magnificent Yew tree (dated to be approximately 1,850 years old) was more than enough. Travellers joy full of bees and lots of shouty Robins in the late August heat.

Go HERE to read more about the church and read the Historic England listing HERE.