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Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 February 2010 by Jonathan Billinger [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1778584] [accessed 28 May 2015]

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Scene Description: Source caption: "The original font in the center of the Memorial Garden". [NB: probably not a font -- cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph by Aidan Simons [www.stnicholascenter.org/media/gazetteer/europe/british-isles/england-uk/south-east/fyfieldh-font-old.jpg] [accessed 28 May 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14235FYF

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

Church Location: Fyfield, Hampshire SP11 8EL, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Hampshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A303, just S of Thruxton, 6-7 km W of Andover

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Winchester

Historical Region: Hundred of Andover

Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for this Fyfield [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU2946/fyfield/] [accessed 28 May 2015]; it mentions a church in it. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 4, 1911) notes: "There was a church at Fyfield at the time of the Domesday Survey. [...] The building is probably of 12th or 13th-century date, but all early details have been destroyed, and such old work as remains does not go back beyond the 15th century [...] The font is a modern octagonal one of stone. In the rectory garden stands an ancient bowl with rounded sides and leaves at the angles, which is probably a mortar and not a font." [NB: we have no information on the font of the Domesday-time church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.215773, -1.578878

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 12′ 56.78″ N, 1° 34′ 43.96″ W

UTM: 30U 599254 5674780

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-01-26 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.