Bishops Waltham No. 2 / Bishop's Waltham / South Waltham / Waltham Westputt / Waltham Woolpit [destroyed]

INFORMATION

FontID: 09950BIS
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: 3 St Peter's St, Bishop's Waltham, Southampton SO32 1AD, UK -- Tel.: +44 1489 892197
Country Name: England
Location: Hampshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located at the B3035-B2177 junction, 15 km SE of Winchester, 15 km ENE of Southampton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Portsmouth
Historical Region: Hundred of Bishop's Waltham -- Hundred of Waltham [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: [destroyed]
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
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 Norman font was destroyed in 1798." [source: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~villages/bwaltham/] [cf. Index entry for Bishps Waltham No. 1 for a Saxon re-installed in this same church in 1965]. [NB: Unless this is the "Saxon" font found "in the garden of a house in Houchin Street in 1933 where it formed part of a rockery" and reinstated in the church [cf. Index entry for Bishops Waltham No. 1]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.95574, -1.21
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 57′ 20.66″ N, 1° 12′ 36″ W
UTM: 30U 625598 5646187

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-08-12 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.