Winchfield / Winchelefeld / Winesflet / Wynchefeud / Wynchingfeld

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view of church exterior - south door

[cf. FontNotes]
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hugh Craddock, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 December 2008 by Hugh Craddock [geograph.org.uk-1094045.jpg
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior - southeast view

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrew Renshaw, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 April 2006 by Andrew Renshaw [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/348109]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

INFORMATION

Font ID: 06768WIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?) [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Bagwell Lane, Winchfield, Hampshire RG27 8DB, UK
Site Location: Hampshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just S of the M3, 3 km W of Fleet, 8 km WNW of Aldershot, 13 km E of Basingstoke
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Winchester
Historical Region: Hundred of Odiham
Additional Comments: altered font (patched, scraped; on a modern base)
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Winchfield [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU7653/winchfield/] [accessed 7 August 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Norman period in this church. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 4, 1911) notes: "The nave and chancel are of mid-12th-century date, while the tower was added a little later, probably shortly after their completion. [...] The font has an old octagonal bowl of Purbeck marble with plain sunk round-headed arcading. It is of late 12th-century date, but has been patched and scraped. The stem is modern." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SU7683854100] reports "a Norman font" in it. Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble; "bowl with round headed panels on each face; the support is modern".

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 646445 5682657
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.276407, -0.900384
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 16′ 35.06″ N, 0° 54′ 1.38″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

  • Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
  • Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 200
  • Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975, p. 78