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view of church exterior

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view of church exterior - south view

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the modern font and cover at the west end of the nave

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the modern font

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14207WHE

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and the Holy Cross

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & the Holy Cross

Church Location: Church St, Wherwell, Andover SP11 7JJ, UK -- Tel.: +44 1962 880845

Country Name: England

Location: Hampshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B3420-B3048 crossroads, just NW of Chilbolton, 6 km SW of Andover

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Winchester

Historical Region: Hundred of Wherwell -- Hundred of Welford [in Domesday]

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Allan Soedring, of www.astoft.co.uk, for his photographs of church and modern font

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There is an entry for Wherwell [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU3940/wherwell/] [accessed 5 September 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 4, 1911) notes: "The building is entirely modern and was erected on the site of an old church in 1856 [...] The registers are bound up in three books, the first containing baptisms, marriages and burials mixed from 1634 to 1708". The present baptismal font is probably from the re-building mentioned in the VCH, and consists of an octagonal basin the sides of which are decorated with pointed arches containing a blank shield in each; moulde underbowl; octagonal base with eight deeply-set pointed arches; on a quadrangular plinth; all parts modern. The wooden cover appears earlier: it consists of a flat octagonal platform on which are four vertical ribs with scroll-work at the inner angles; the chains for the raising pulley are rigged to the lower sides. [NB: we have no information on the original font of the medieval church] [the Abbey of Wherwell nearby, founded before 1000 AD, may have likely had a baptismal font as well, but we have no information on it]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.1656, -1.441

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 9′ 56.16″ N, 1° 26′ 27.6″ W

UTM: 30U 609002 5669396

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-01-14 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.