St Peter's Church, Yateley
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St Peter's Church, Yateley
Image: © Len Williams Taken: 15 Mar 2014
On the night of 5th May 1979 St Peter's Church, Yateley, was burnt down for a second time, this time by an arsonist, leaving only the walls, the charred timbers of the tower and the cracked bells In the rebuilding of the church, great care was taken to save what could be preserved and at the same time to enlarge and modernise the building, extending some 25 feet into the churchyard on the south side. Single lines of darker tiles in the current church floor show approximately where the south wall of the Saxon church was and also the line of the south wall of St. Peter's before the fire. Two and a half years after the fire, the new St. Peter's was consecrated by the Bishop of Winchester on the 21st November 1981.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.341318
Longitude
-0.827736