Upton Grey / Aoltone? / Upetona / Upetone

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B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle - 8

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BBL01: design element - motifs - moulding - parallel

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BU01: design element - motifs - floral - square flower

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BU02: human figure - male - head

Scene Description: at least two of them

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BU03: design element - motifs - moulding

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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06780UPT

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary [aka OurLady's]

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Church St, Upton Grey, Basingstoke RG25 2RB, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Hampshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located off (SE) the M3, 6-7 km ESE of Basingstoke

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Winchester

Historical Region: Hundred of Bermondspit

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, N side

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Chris Hayley, of Southern Life [http://southernlife.org.uk], and to Colin Smith for their photographs of church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

No entry for Upton Grey found in the Domesday survey. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Decorated period in this church. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 3, 1908) notes: "There was a church at Upton in 1086 [...] At the south-west angle of the nave, at the springing of the west bay of the south arcade, is a stone which may take the history of the church back beyond the twelfth century; it has mouldings of pre-Conquest character, and looks like the impost of a tenth or eleventh century arch. There is, however, no reason to assume that it is in its original position. [...] an early twelfth-century arch, which was rebuilt as it now appears in the early part of the thirteenth century, to which date the chancel and tower belong. [...] The first book of the registers begins in 1550 [...] The font, which stands midway in the nave on the north side, is of the fifteenth century, and has an octagonal bowl with quatrefoiled panels and a slender octagonal stem." The VCH (ibid.) does not mention the decorated underbowl, which is carved with human heads and square flowers. The wooden cover consists of a flat octagonal platform with moulded and radiated top, on which are four vertical curved tibs around a turned pivot; ball finial. [NB: we have no information on the original font of the 11th-century church].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.231, -1.002

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 13′ 51.6″ N, 1° 0′ 7.2″ W

UTM: 30U 639495 5677410

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-08-25 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907