Sydmonton

Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as one in a very large group of baptismal fonts that are plain octagonal with straightsided basins. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 4, 1911) notes: "The church is a modern building finished in 1853 [...] in 14th-century style [...] The most interesting parts of the building are the three re-used early 12th-century arches [...] All the fittings of the church are new, including the plain octagonal font at the west end of the nave" [NB: a footnote in the VCH (ibid.) notes that the mid-19th century church was a re-building of an earlier one; the VCH (ibid.) reports a church here in Saxon times] [NB: we assume that the font reported in Tyrrell-Green [cf. supra] was the modern one; we have no information on the font(s) from the earlier churches]