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

INFORMATION

Font ID: 06778ROM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century / 19th century, Decorated? / Modern?
Church / Chapel Name: Abbey Church of St. Mary & St. Ethelflaeda [former Benedictine convent]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin & St. Ethelfleda [aka Elfleda]
Church Address: 9 The Abbey, Romsey SO51 8EP, UK
Site Location: Hampshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
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 Notes:
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

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

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. 201