St Mary's Church, Portsea stands on the oldest church site on Portsea Island, Hampshire, England, with a history stretching back to the 11th century. Archaeological research indicates that there was a church here in 650, although 1170 is the earliest date in recorded history.
For more information visit on this building visit www.explorechurches.org/church/st-mary-portsea
Hayling Island has been a 'holy' island since the late Iron Age when an important Celtic shrine was built. This wooden shrine was replaced by a stone temple after the Roman conquest after AD 43. By the late 7th century there is evidence of a series of minster churches. Havant was probably the minster church for Hayling and it is certain that a parish church was founded and dedicated on the Island in the late Saxon period.
The ruins of 13th century Titchfield Abbey, the last monastery of Premonstratensian canons to be founded in England, lie in the valley of the River Meon in south Hampshire.
Dating mainly from the 1190s, Warnford church has an earlier tower and Saxon roots. The first church on the site may have been built by St Wilfrid in the 680s.
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