St Mary's Church, Laverstoke is a parish church in the

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Laverstoke Laverstoke is a village in north west Hampshire, England. In the early 18th century, Laverstoke Mill was purchased by the Portals, a family of Huguenot immigrants from Languedoc who were establishing a successful paper making business. Henry de ...

, Hampshire. The church is to the east of Laverstoke village, near the small village of Freefolk. It was built in 1896 to designs of the architect

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. It was constructed in

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with Bath stone dressings. It has a steeple on the south side containing a chapel. Pevsner is fairly scathing about the design by Pearson, saying "not a church to do him much credit...Nothing is vaulted, and the only a little more than humdrum feature inside is the wall-passage or detached shafting in the chancel's wall."

Organ

The pipe organ by Wordsworth and Maskell dates from 1896. A specification of the organ can be found on the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Laverstoke Grade II listed churches in Hampshire Church of England church buildings in Hampshire Churches completed in 1896