St Mary's Church, Carisbrooke is a

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in the

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located in

Carisbrooke Carisbrooke is a village on the south-western outskirts of Newport, in the civil parish of Newport and Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight, England. It is best known as the site of Carisbrooke Castle. It also has a medieval parish church, St Mary's Chu ...

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. A service is held every Sunday morning at 8:00 and 9:30.

History

The church is medieval dating from the Norman period. The tower contains a ring of 10 bells. The back 8 bells were cast in 1921 by Gillet and Johnston, Croydon and were made a ring of 10 in 2002 by the Whitchapel Bell Foundry. The church is home to the funeral monument of Margaret Seymour, Lady Wadham, aunt to

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, and second wife to Sir Nicholas I Wadham,

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from 1509 to 1520.

Church status

The church was formerly grouped with the Church of St Nicholas in Castro, Carisbrooke, and is now additionally grouped with Sts Thomas Minster, Newport, St John's, Newport and St Olave's, Gatcombe.

Incumbents

Alexander Ross, prolific

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writer and controversialist, was vicar of Carisbrooke from 1634 until his death in 1654.

Burials

*Lady Wadham, 1520 *

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, 1619 (discoverer of the Keeling Islands in the

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) *Sir William Stephens, 1697

Organ

The church has a two manual organ dating from 1908 by Bevington. A specification of the organ can be found on the Nation pipe organ register. The church also has a small practice organ and a piano.

List of organists

*John T. Read ca. 1912Dictionary of Organs and Organists, First Edition. 1912. p. 305

References

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