Headbourne Worthy / Hedborne Worthy / Hideburninga / Hyldborne Worthy / Ordie / Worthy Mortimer

There are three entries for [Headbourne] Worthy [varaint spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU4832/headbourne-worthy/] [accessed 6 September 2018], one of which reports a church in it. The baptismal font of this church is illustrated in a 19th-century drawing by W.B. Bradfield now in the Catalogue of Drawings & Museum Objects of the Society of Antiquaries of London [http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-402-1/ahds/dissemination/jpg/society_albums/architectural_remains/ar84-3.jpg] [accessed 20 January 2008]. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 4, 1911) notes: "There was a church in Headbourne Worthy at the time of the Domesday Survey [...] The building is of great interest, preserving in its nave and the western part of its chancel the plan and a good deal of the walling of a pre-Conquest church, probably of the early part of the 11th century. [...] The font is circular and has a moulded bowl and base. The upper part is of Binstead stone and is probably a recutting from an older shape." The font consists of a roughly hemispherical basin with plain sides raised on a round moulded pedestal base, the whole on a very narrow two-step rectangular plinth. The font cover is described in the November 2004 edition of the St. George's News [http://www.stgeorgesnews.org/2004/09f07.htm] [accessed 20 January 2008]: "The font at the back of the nave is plain and circular dating from the 13th century. It is surmounted by a fine wooden cover designed and handcut by the Rev Slessor, a late Victorian rector. Eight triangular patterns depict oak leaves and acorns, ivy leaves, hops, holly, blackberries, grapes, hazelnuts and wild strawberries." [NB: it is not known to what period the original (?) font belonged (before its re-cutting)].