Wolverton nr. Basingstoke / Olferton / Ulfertona / Ulvredestune / Ulvretune / Ulwarcumbe / Wlfrinton / Wlfferton / Wolferton / Wolfreton / Woolverton / Wolverston / Wulfrestone
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Catherine's Church, Wolverton. Built in 1717 of light red brick. Nikolaus Pevsner called it "the best Early Georgian church in Hampshire" [...] In fact the church is a "re-casing" and inside the roof is medieval."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hugh Chevallier, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 March 2008 by Hugh Chevallier [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/747372] [accessed 8 March 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Vigar, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 July 2010 by John Vigar [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1963802] [accessed 8 April 2016]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 17216WOL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Date: ca. 1286?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (late?), Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Catherine
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Catherine of Alexandria [aka Katherine, Katharine]
Church Address: Crabs Hill, Baughurst, Wolvertone, Hampshire RG26 5RT
Site Location: Hampshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 11 km from both Basingstoke and Newbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Winchester
Historical Region: Hundred of Kingsclere
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 13thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There are three entries for this Wolverton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU5558/wolverton/] [accessed 8 March 2016], none of which mentions a church in it. White (1878) mentions a font in this church but gives no details of it. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 4, 1911) notes: "The first mention of a church in Wolverton is in 1286 in the inquisition taken on the death of Reginald Fitz Peter. [...] The font is modern and octagonal." [NB: the present 18th-century church encloses an earlier church of the 15th century; it was restored in the early 1870s; we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 624759 5687300
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.323295, -1.209507
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 19′ 23.86″ N, 1° 12′ 34.22″ W
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- White, William, History, gazetteer and directory of the County of Hampshire including the Isle of Wight, and [...], Sheffield: William White, 1878, p. 676