Ovington nr. Winchester / Edintune / Edyneton
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 16
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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view of church exterior - southwest end
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 December 2010 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2271728] [accessed 5 July 2018]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06748OVI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Ovington w Itchen Stoke, SO24 0RB, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Hampshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located 5-6 km E of Winchester, just N of the A31
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Winchester
Historical Region: Hundred of Fawley
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman / Transitional?
No entry found for this Ovington in the Domesday survey. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Norman period made of Purbeck marble in this church. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 3, 1908) notes: "There is no mention of a church in Ovington at the time of the Domesday Survey [1086]. One, however, existed before 1284, as in that year the king [Edward I] gave up to John bishop of Winchester and his successors all his right in the advowson of the church of Ovington. [...] The church of St. Peter [...] [was] entirely rebuilt in 1865–6 [...] In the porch is preserved an ancient holy-water stone. The font is of Purbeck marble, with a bowl ornamented with shallow arcades, after a late twelfth-century fashion, but there is nothing else in the church with any pretensions to antiquity." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SU5607831666] reports a "Font Purbeck Marble in C12 style" in it.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.081,
-1.2005
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 4' 51" N,
1° 12' 1" W
UTM: 30U 626087 5660397
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-08-18 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
