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
![Source caption: "St Mary's Church at Elvetham Hall" [the 19thC church]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1180804047_compressed.png)
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
Font ID: 17452ELV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: The Elvetham Hotel, Fleet Rd, Hartley Wintney, Hook RG27 8AS, UK
Site Location: Hampshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the church report in the National Gazetteer of 1868 as "an ancient structure")
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 30U 647805 5685463
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.301268, -0.87974
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 18′ 4.57″ N, 0° 52′ 47.06″ W
REFERENCES
- The National Gazetteer: a Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles, London: Virtue & Co., 1868
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.