Elvetham / Elvetcham / Helvetham / Ulvetham

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Former parish church of St Mary, Elvetham, Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, seen from the northwest".

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lewis Hulbert, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 May 2014 by Lewis Hulbert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Church_of_St_Mary_at_Elvetham_Hall,_Hartley_Wintney.JPG] [accessed 2 August 2018]

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Formerly St Mary's. The one time estate church in Elvetham Park, built in 1840. Very picturesque, but these days it's not even on the redundant list. It is deconsecrated, the windows are boarded up and the interior seems to be used as a storeroom for the nearby hotel."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Des Blenkinsopp, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 December 2014 by Des Blenkinsopp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4296270] [accessed 2 August 2018]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary's Church at Elvetham Hall" [the 19thC church]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrew Mathewson, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 March 2010 by Andrew Mathewson [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1740147] [accessed 2 August 2018]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Elvetham Hall, now a hotel

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lewis Hulbert, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 May 2014 by Lewis Hulbert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elvetham_Hall.jpg] [accessed 2 August 2018]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 17452ELV
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: The Elvetham Hotel, Fleet Rd, Hartley Wintney, Hook RG27 8AS, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Hampshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A323 [aka Fleet Rd], 2 km ESE of of Hartley Wintney, 5 km NW of Winchfield, 7 km NE of Odiham. The church is in the grounds of Elvetham Hall
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Winchester
Historical Region: Hundred of Odiham
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: , Medieval
There is an entry for Elvetham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU7856/elvetham/] [accessed 2 August 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The National Gazetter of 1868 reports the church here as an ancient structure. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 4, 1911) notes: "The church of St. Mary [...] is said to have been 'restored' in 1840–1, but as no old stones have been left it is practically a wholly modern structure. It is of flint and stone, and is in the style of the 12th century. All its furniture and fittings are also modern". The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SU7737357099] mentions no font in it, not any thing about an earlier church here. [NB: the 1840 church appears to have been converted into a squash court, as part of The Elvetham, a luxury hotel and convention centre -- we have no information on the medieval font].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.301268, -0.87974
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 18′ 4.57″ N, 0° 52′ 47.06″ W
UTM: 30U 647805 5685463

REFERENCES

The National Gazetteer: a Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles, London: Virtue & Co., 1868
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-06-03 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.