Itchen Abbas / Icene / Ichene / Ichin Abbas / Ichyn
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the 19th-century font in use [cf. FontNotes]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 17478ITC
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Itchen Abbas, Winchester SO21 1BJ , UK -- Tel.: 01962 779845
Country Name: England
Location: Hampshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B3047, 6 km W of Alresford, 7 km N of Winchester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Winchester
Historical Region: Hundred of Bountisborough
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Date: ca. 1110-1120?
Century and Period: 12th century (early?), Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of church and modern font
There is an entry for Itchen [Abbas] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU5332/itchen-abbas/] [accessed 13 August 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 4, 1911) notes: "The earliest known mention of the church of Itchen Abbas occurs in 1280 [...] The north-east doorway is of very similar detail to the chancel arch but retains very little old stonework: it is evident that the church of which they formed part was built early in the 12th century, probably between 1110 and 1120. [...] The font is of a poor design with a shallow bowl on a tall stem, of early 19th-century date, and in the churchyard is a disused modern Norman font. [...] The whole church was rebuilt in 1867 in 12th-century style in flint and Bath stone, the old chancel arch being re-used and some stones of the north doorway." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SP4850432255] reports: "N[orth] transept has early C19 font with shallow octagonal bowl on arcaded shaft." [NB: we have no information on the whereabouts of the medieval font of the original church].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.091402,
-1.238126
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 5′ 29.05″ N,
1° 14′ 17.26″ W
UTM: 30U 623383 5661466
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-06-08 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
