Bishops Waltham No. 1 / Bishop's Waltham / South Waltham / Waltham Westputt / Waltham Woolpit

There is an entry for [Bishops] Waltham in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU5517/bishops-waltham/] [accessed 27 June 2018]; it reports "2 churches. 2.5 church lands" in it. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 3, 1908) notes): "It is recorded in Domesday Book that 'Ralf the priest holds the two churches of this manor, with two and a half hides.' [...] The first of these two churches was the parish church of Bishop's Waltham, in the gift of the bishop of Winchester, lord of the manor. [...] The font, at the south-west of the nave, is modern, and has a square bowl worked with shallow tracery patterns." The VCH does not mention any earlier fonts in this church. "The Saxon font was found in the garden of a house in Houchin Street in 1933 where it formed part of a rockery. In 1965 it was mounted on a plinth of Portland stone and re-dedicated. The base of the bowl is square, the upper part rounded, and not surprisingly, the surface is rough and weathered." [source: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~villages/bwaltham/] [cf. Index entry for Bishps Waltham No. 2 for a destroyed font of the Norman period from this same church; unless this is the font reported as destroyed]