Stratfield Saye / Stradfelle / Stratfieldsaye / Stratfield Sea / Stratfeld Stuteville / Stratford Say / Strattefeud Say / Stretfeld Magna

There are three entries for Stratfield [Saye] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU6861/stratfield-saye/] [accessed 1 August 2018], one of which reports a church in it. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 4, 1911) notes: "A church existed in the parish at the time of the Domesday Survey [...] The Church of Our Lady [...] was built by George Pitt, afterwards Lord Rivers, in 1784 [...] There is a good 18th-century alabaster font at the west end of the nave". George C. Boon, in the Proc. Hants. Field Club Archaeol, Soc. 30, 1975, 4 [www.hantsfieldclub.org.uk/publications/hampshirestudies/digital/1970s/vol30/Boon.pdf] [accessed 1 August 2018] states that the old church "was pulled down in 1758", and points out inaccuracies in the VCH entry [cf. supra] related to the erection of the new church and "misplaces the site of the old church on the 'north-west' of the stables instead of the south-west." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing no. 1167723] reports: "the font is Victorian of Wren style"; the church itself being a replacement of the medieval edifice in a new site. [NB: we have no information on the medieval font -- a small priory dedicated to St. Leonard existed in Stratfield Saye in Norman times, In the part of the parish that falls within Berkshire [cf. VCH, Berkshire, vol. 2: 113 (1907)]