A mill house stands at the southern end of the village amid some beautifully preserved thatched cottage with cob walls that are made of clay and straw and in the spring and summer they look a riot of colour with their hanging baskets full of flowers and jasmine and clematis tumbling over them.

There is an 11th century church which was enlarged a century later and agin in the 15th and it has some of the old pews still in use. Only one brass memorial is here and that is in commemoration of Mary Gore who was the prioress of Amesbury and died in 1436.

Headmaster, Mr Roberts and his wife with
Class 1 of Nether Wallop School 1903

One strange thing though is a 15th century mural that depicts Christ bleeding from wounds that have been caused by tools used by those that worked on a Sunday and it is entitled 'A Warning to Sabbath Breakers', but the most remarkable item here is an old cricket bat.

This was made in the village by local craftsmen from the willows that grow in the area and was once prized by one of England's greatest cricketers W. G. Grace.

A bell is painted over the tower arch and a set of scales and angles is painted over an arch in the chancel

St Andrews church

A castle and figure of St George clad in armour is also here, and there are two people peeping over the wall of the castle and this is the only picture of the saint in the village that is associated with  miracle plays.

In the churchyard there is a strange but huge pyramid which was built in memory of Francis Douce an 18th century 'Doctor of Physick', and is colourful arms are show from which t there are flames made from red stone shown and in 1759 he started a Charity which still continued into the 20th century, he was also related to the Paulet family and his will quotes:

"I give to the Parish of Wallop (providing they do not suffer my pyramid to be injured) the interest of £1000 as they now stand which I shall dye possessed of in Southsea Annuities at the Southsea House for ever, to he made use of for the following purposes, viz:— To help support the men and women who are past their labours and do dwell in that Parish of Lower Wallop to be distributed by twelve of the heads of the Parish or as the majority of the jury (meaning the twelve men) and if they do not do justice I cannot help that . . . I order that out of the said interest money that the boys and girls of the said parish are taught to read and write and cast an account a little way, especially those who cannot pay for schooling or learning, but they must not go too far least it makes them saucy and the girls all want to be chamber maids, and in a few years you will be in want of cooks. . . . I give this Charity provisionally that my Pyramid shall be kept in good order and the iron rails painted every second year at the charge of the parish, and if the Parish boys do climb or injure it they shall not only be deprived of their learning but shall also be punished, and if the Parish do not keep the Pyramid in good repair this Charity shall cease and be void and subsist no longer."

Villages welcoming Australian soldiers in WW2

HISTORY OF ST ANDREW'S CHURCH

IMAGES OF NETHER WALLOP

The Five Bells		Nether Wallop street scene
more views of Nether Wallop
The road to Broughton		The Square
The High Street		16th century Jasmine Cottage in the High Street
Rear of St Andrews church		Ariel view of Nether Wallop Photo submitted by Peter Snow, Alberta Canada
The Pyramid of Frances Douce		The river running through The Square