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Meetings:
First Thursday of every month
The meetings are joint ones with Andover U3A.
A visit is arranged to the Guild Hall for Thursday, 11th September. Meet at the entrance to the Guild Hall @ five minutes to ten (9.55 a.m.).
We seem to be expanding this group to outside visits to churches around Andover, whose political/social
activities and peoples have influenced the history and development of the area since the Norman Conquest.
We closed the summer meetings with an outside visit to Amport Church, where it was pointed out to us that the
original Medieval structure had been added to by the Victorians making it what we look upon today - a building
as a whole. But on closer inspection it is indeed many buildings. John pointed out to us several memorials,
explaining who these people were, why and what they did to enhance the church and to help the people of that time.
The meeting dealt with religious changes in the 1500's. As a result an extra meeting has been arranged when the Group are going on a visit to Knights Enham Church on Thursday 17th April meeting at 10.30am.
March Meeting__
We were challenged on our memory of events from 1066-1455. Bit hazy at first but we were soon able to remember about wedding doors together with Black Death etc. We were given a list of national events from 1141 to 1438 which started with the Siege of Winchester, the Murder of Thomas Becket, the Interdict of Innocent III (Pope), the 100 Years War, the Black Death, the Statute of Labourers and the Hampshire Revolt. We were then given a list of local events from 1141 to 1479 to see how these fitted in with the national events we had already discussed. These included the Firing of Andover (1141), the Charters of Henry II and John (which gave Andover markets and gilds), the Hospital of St John, Gild Rolls and Great Fire of Andover (1435).
Further details and information relating to the Domesday Book, and impact on Andover.
Only half strength at this one. We have been studying the social structure of Andover area since 1086 to a couple of generations later. Many facts are taken directly from the Domesday Book. We were taken through the architecture of the period, both house and church. eg. Wedding doors and the reasons why they are only opened at wedding ceremonies. For the last three quarters of an hour we were taken down to the crypt of St. Mary's Church in Andover, where we experienced walking on the floor of the original Norman church. We were also shown engraved 16th Century grave stones. Some of the names remain common in the area to this day.
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