Warnford No. 1 / Upwarneford / Wanford / Warneford / Warnesford

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Results: 8 records

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Christ - Agnus Dei - with beasts

Scene Description: on the east side of the basin [cf. Font notes]

animal - 2 - face to face

Scene Description: on the south side of the basin [cf. Font notes]

animal - bird - 2

Scene Description: on the west side of the basin: with another carving [unidentified] between the the two [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph by Allan Soedring in www.astoft.co.uk/warnfordchurch.htm [accessed 14 March 2007

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 18 March 2007)

animal - bird - 3

Scene Description: on the north side of the basin [cf. Font notes]

view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 4 November 2017 by Simon Burchell [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Church_of_Our_Lady,_Warnford_05.jpg] [accessed 27 June 2018]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 4 November 2017 by Simon Burchell [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Church_of_Our_Lady,_Warnford_02.jpg] [accessed 27 June 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph in Southern Life [www.southernlife.org.uk/wanrnfchu.htm] [accessed 15 March 2007]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font - northwest side

Scene Description: the side facing the viewer is the west side; visible at rhe rear is the chancel through the screen

Image Source: digital photograph by Allan Soedring in www.astoft.co.uk/warnfordchurch.htm [accessed 14 March 2007

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12813WAR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of Our Lady

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Warnford Park, A32, Warnford SO32 3LA , UK -- Tel.: 01730 829226

Country Name: England

Location: Hampshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located off the A32, 11 km NE of Bishop's Waltham, between West Meon and Fareham [the church is located in Warnford Park, near the Meon river, away from the village]

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Portsmouth

Historical Region: Hundred of Meonstoke

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman? / Transitional?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Allan Soedring, of www.astoft.co.uk, and to Chris Hayley, of www.southernlife.org.uk, for their photographs of this font.

Church Notes: the VCH entry [cf. FontNotes] gives "dedication unknown"

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for Warnford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU6222/warnford/] [accessed 27 June 2018], one of which reports a church in it. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 notes: "the font is large and of Norman character". The National Gazetteer of 1868 reports "a Norman font" in the church "founded by the Saxon Wilfrid" [NB: the reference is to the original church said to have been founded ca. 682 by St. Wilfrid, bishop, during his exile from Northumbria. The church was re-built at the end of the 12th century]. Described in the Victoria County History (Hampshire, 1908): "There was a church in Warnford at the time of the Domesday Survey [i.e., 1086] [...] though there is no absolute evidence to prove that [the chancel] is older than the tower, it is probable that the tower was added to it about 1175–80. [...] The font at the west of the nave is a very interesting late twelfth-century example, in Purbeck marble, with a square bowl, with more elaborate carvings than usual in this type of font, but unfortunately in very bad condition. It stands on a central and four angleshafts of marble, and has on the east face of the bowl an Agnus Dei between two beasts, on the north three birds displayed, on the south two large beasts facing each other, and on the west a defaced carving between two birds." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SP6127214375] reports: "in the centre, at the rear, is a Purbeck font (c1130) on a drum with four corner columns" in it.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.99993, -1.1139

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 59′ 59.75″ N, 1° 6′ 50.04″ W

UTM: 30U 632342 5651510

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Drainage Notes: lead lining

LID INFORMATION

Notes: one of the old iron staples of the old cover still in place

REFERENCES

The National Gazetteer: a Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles, London: Virtue & Co., 1868

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2007-03-14 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831