Romsey No. 2 / Romescye / Romeseye / Romesie / Romesy / Romsey Extra / Romsey Infra / Rumsey

INFORMATION

FontID: 06778ROM
Church/Chapel: Abbey Church of St. Mary & St. Ethelflaeda [former Benedictine convent]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. Ethelfleda [aka Elfleda]
Church Location: 9 The Abbey, Romsey SO51 8EP, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Hampshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A27-A3090 crossroads, 13 km NW of Southampton, 18 SW of Winchester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Winchester
Historical Region: Hundred of King's Sombourne
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century / 19th century, Decorated? / Modern?
There is an entry for Romsey abbey [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU3521/romsey/] [accessed 11 September 2018]; it does not mention a church in it but there was one there. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Decorated period here. This is probably the same font reported as modern in the Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 4, 1911): "modern font of 13th-century design". [cf. Index entry for Romsey No. 1 for a possibly disappeared Tournai font from this abbey church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.989722, -1.501389
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 59′ 23″ N, 1° 30′ 5″ W
UTM: 30U 605178 5649751

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-08-03 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907