St. Agnes' Church, Freshwater is a parish church

Parish church

A parish church , in Christianity, is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish, the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches....

 in the Church of England

Church of England

The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St...

 located in Freshwater, Isle of Wight

Freshwater, Isle of Wight

Freshwater is a large village and civil parish at the western end of the Isle of Wight, England. Freshwater Bay is a small cove on the south coast of the Island which also gives its name to the nearby part of Freshwater....

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History

The church dates from 1908 and is by the architect Isaac Jones

Isaac Jones

Isaac Jones may refer to:*Isaac Dashiell Jones, Maryland politician*Isaac Jones , translator and curate of St Deiniol's Church, Llanddaniel Fab, Wales*Isaac Jones , Gambian sprinter...

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Tennyson's son, Hallam

Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson

Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, GCMG, PC , the second Governor-General of Australia, was born at Chapel House, Twickenham, in Surrey, England. Named after his father's late friend Arthur Hallam, he was the elder son of Alfred Tennyson, the most popular and prominent poet of late Victorian...

 donated land for a new church in Freshwater Bay. Hallam's wife Audrey suggested that the church be named for St. Agnes

Saint Agnes

Agnes of Rome is a virgin–martyr, venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, the Anglican Communion, and Lutheranism. She is one of seven women, excluding the Blessed Virgin, commemorated by name in the Canon of the Mass...

. St. Agnes Church was consecrated 12 August 1908. It is the only thatched church on the Isle of Wight.

The stone used to build the Church came from an old and derelict farm house on Hooke Hill, Freshwater, and the date stone 1622 [sic] was incorporated into the vestry wall, thus rather misleading those who may think the Church belonged to the 17th century".

Organ

A specification of the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register.