Litchfield / Leteshelve / Liddesulde / Lidescelve / Lideshull / Lidulse / Lieuselva / Livescelve / Liveschella / Liveshelle / Lodeschylve / Luddeshelve / Ludeshul / Ludeshulff / Ludeshull / Ludshelf / Lydeshelf

There is an entry for Litchfield [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU4653/litchfield/] [accessed 21 August 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 4, 1911) notes: "There was a church in the parish by the middle of the 13th century [...] The 12th-century building on the site consisted of a nave one bay shorter eastwards than at present, with a south aisle divided off by an arcade of two bays, now blocked, the aisle being destroyed. There may have been at first a chancel narrower than the nave, but if so it has left no trace, and the present chancel was added c. 1190, having its eastern bay covered with a stone vault. About the year 1200 an aisle of two bays was added on the north side of the nave, and shortly afterwards an east bay was added to both nave arcades, that on the north opening to the site of a former north-east vestry. There may have been a similar vestry or chapel at the east of the south aisle. The whole building underwent a restoration in 1875 [...] Near the modern font is the bowl of an old one which is considerably damaged and is square with chamfered corners." The modern font is located in the arcade that separates the nave from the N aisle.