A short history of Rotherwick Church, Hampshire.
A grade II listed building.
First notable recorded is in the 12th century.
A mixture of early and late medieval structure along with an addition of a bell tower in the 17th Century.
C13, C15, C16, C19. The building has a narrow chancel (of C13), a wide nave
(C15, C16) with a short aisle of 2 bays (C19), vestry (C19) and western tower of C17. The renovated chancel is plain, of flint with stone dressings.
The nave was originally a completely timber framed structure, of which the roof and gables survive, but the brick walling is a replacement of the C16; a projecting turret at the south-east corner was the rood stair.
A large red brick tower has a crenellated top and band, a western 3-light window above a doorway opening containing a C15 solid moulded timber frame, there are stepped buttresses (diagonal at the west side) at the corners. The Victorian aisle and vestry are of lesser height, in flint walling. Red tile roof. One good 4-light C16 window with a hood-mould above 5 cusped lights, the other nave windows being copies. The interior has a C16 wooden screen, 2 groups of C16 piers, monuments, and an old font.

The 6 bells
1 3-3-20 E 27.50" 1908 Mears & Stainbank Y
2 4-2-17 D 28.50" 1630 Ellis I Knight Y
3 4-3-18 C 30.75" c1370† Stephen Norton Y
4 5-1-26 B 32.25" 1607† Richard Eldridge Y
5 7-3-12 A 36.00" c1499† Wokingham foundry Y
6 9-2-10 G 39.75" 1908 Mears & Stainbank

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