Photograph of Pitt, near Winchester
Taken about 1865
Pitt is a small hamlet clustered round the Winchester to Hursley road; it lies in the parish of Hursley and close to Winchester's city boundary.
The chapel in the foreground was built in 1858 at the expense of Miss Charlotte Yonge, an authoress and devout Christian who lived in nearby Otterbourne and was a friend of the Reverend John Keble, vicar of Hursley. It also served as a school - it was not uncommon for part of a church to be used as a schoolroom before a national system of education was established later in the nineteenth century.
While the people are obligingly posed for the photograph a cat arches its back angrily towards the left hand side of the road.
The photograph was taken by Winchester photographer William Savage (1817-87) and is found in an album entitled 'Hampshire Views of Churches, Country Houses and Public Buildings'.
