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© Mr Stuart Goodall
IoE Number:
135834
Location:
RUINS OF HOLY ROOD CHURCH, HIGH STREET (east side)
SOUTHAMPTON, SOUTHAMPTON, HAMPSHIRE
Photographer:
Mr Stuart Goodall
Date Photographed:
29 June 2000
Date listed:
14 July 1953
Date of last amendment:
08 October 1981
Grade
II*
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1. HIGH STREET
5239 (east side)
Former Holy Rood Church,
now a Merchant Navy
Memorial
(formerly listed as
Ruins of Holy Rood Church)
SU 4211 4/137 14.7.53
II*
2.
This was built in 1320, rebuilt in 1849-50 retaining parts of the C14 chancel
and aisles and the south-west tower and spire and was bombed during the Second
World War. The ruins were restored in 1957 as a memorial to merchant seamen.
C14 built of stone rubble. Tower walls intact up to springing of tower roof
but the wooden spire has gone. Three stages with tall Y-tracery window on
the south side at the top of the first stage and 2-light cusples windows,
with circular tracery, to the belfry. Chancel remains substantially intact
with 2 perpendicular windows in the south wall. Blocked outline of a trefoiled
sedilia in the south wall. Under the tower is a memorial fountain, erected
in 1912-13 for those who lost their lives in the Titanic Dfisaster, removed
from its original site in Cemetery Road, the Common Stone Drinking Fountain,
supported on 4 stone columns. Curved pediment on each side with carving depicting
the 'Titanic' 4 columned cupola over all. The ruins of the church are scheduled
as an ancient monument.