Original sepia print of the interior of St Mary's Church, Easton looking east from the font, c. 1870

Photograph of St Mary's Church, Easton

Taken about 1870

St Mary's Church was built in about 1200 with alterations in the 1860s. In this image the horseshoe shape of the chancel arch and the apse beyond the chancel at the east end can just be made out. One of the monuments in the chancel is to Agatha Barlow, once a nun, whose husband was a prior, then a bishop (under Henry VIII), an exile (under Mary I) and a bishop again (under Elizabeth I); remarkably their five daughters were all married to bishops.

The photograph was taken by Winchester photographer William Savage (1817-87) and is found in an album of his work.