Hound / Hound Green / Howne / Hune / Hvne / Letelie

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches - 16
view of church exterior - northwest view
view of church interior - looking west
view of font in context
INFORMATION
FontID: 06774HOU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of Our Lady
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin [St. Edward the Confessor?]
Church Location: 64 Hound Road, Netley Abbey, Hound, Southampton SO31 5FU, UK -- Tel.: 02380 457 055
Country Name: England
Location: Hampshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located off (SW) the M27, between Netley (W) and the river Hamble (E), 11 km ENE of Basingstoke
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Winchester
Historical Region: Hundred of Mansbridge [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the NW end of the nave
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Chris Hayley, of http://southernlife.org.uk, for his photograph of this church
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Hound [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU4708/hound/] [accessed 26 July 2018]; it reports a church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a noteworthy baptismal font of the Early English period here. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 3, 1908) notes: "No mention of a church at Hound occurs in the Domesday Survey [...] Tradition states that Hound church was built by Hamble Priory about 1230 [...] The general structure belongs to the first half of the thirteenth century [...] At the north-west of the nave stands a Purbeck marble font with octagonal bowl, much retooled, with two pointed arches sunk on each face; it has an octagonal central and four smaller shafts, and dates from c. 1200." Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SU4718608808] notes a church that is "C13. Early English style" but mentions no font in it. An entry for this church in Geocache [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC1PAQE_church-micro-392-st-peter-st-paul-hockley] [accessed 31 May 2024] notes: "Although mentioned in the Domesday Book, no vestige of the original building remains. In 1220 the church was rebuilt and enlarged, when a chancel chapel and the beautiful north arcade were added. The font of Purbeck marble dates from 1160 and was hidden for many years in the tower while a wooden bowl was used instead for baptisms."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.8762, -1.3324
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 52′ 34.32″ N, 1° 19′ 56.64″ W
UTM: 30U 617323 5637383
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-09-01 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975