Brown Candover / Brunecandevere / Brunkardoune / Candefer / Candeure / Candevre [Domesday] / Candevre Abbatis / Candovere

There is an entry for [Brown] Candover [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU5739/brown-candover/] [accessed 9 August 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 4, 1911) notes: "The church [...] is modern [...] A church in Candover is mentioned in the Golden Charter (903) to Hyde Abbey, [...] but there is no reference to one in Domesday Book." [NB: not known how reliable the Golden Charter would be on this information; see also the entry for the adjacent parish of Chilton Candover]. The Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council's Conservation Area Appraisal of April 2004 [www.basingstoke.gov.uk] notes: "Brown Candover has grown around St Peter’s Church, Candover House and three large farms. The first church in the area, which was destroyed by fire in the 16th century, was located half a mile from the present church. A map of the village of 1588 shows lines of plots extended along both sides of the road. They run from the present church site down to the land at the fork in the road. [...] The medieval St Peter’s Church was demolished in 1844. The present building (Grade II*), dating from 1845, was designed by Thomas Henry Wyatt in a Gothic Revival style." The entry for this 19th-century church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SU5843039772] mentions no font in it. [NB: we have no information on the font of the earlier church].