St Huberts Church - Sleepy Church of Secrets

Join me on this adventure, as we look into this sleepy church and wonder what secrets it has to hide, St Huberts Church Idsworth.


The work of Professor Sir Barry Cunliffe, on the early Anglo Saxon settlement of Chalton has shown that this area had been settled since Roman times at least. Idsworth may have been a Roman farmstead, coins and pottery have been found in the vicinity. The rise of chalkland would have been well drained, whilst in the valley a small stream flows.

All trace of the village has now gone, buried under the plough. It was deserted sometime at the end of the C14th, quite possibly as a result of the plague wiping out the population. The chapel though remained and before the village’s population was decimated, they chose to adorn the walls of their chapel with wonderful Medieval wall art. This art had been covered up during King Henry VIII’s reformation by layers of whitewash, until, in 1864, the Reverend J. Astley had the layers removed. A more modern piece of artwork gives a striking vision of how it must have looked inside our churches during the Medieval period.



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