Woodcott / Odecote / Wodecote / Woodcote / Wudecote

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view of church exterior - south view

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view of church exterior - west view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 June 2012 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3146750] [accessed 23 August 2018]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 17517WOO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James

Church Patron Saints: St. James

Church Location: Church Bank, Woodcott, Whitchurch RG28 7PY, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Hampshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A34, 7 km NW of Whitchurch

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Winchester

Historical Region: Hundred of Pastrow -- Hundred of Hurstbourne [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: , Medieval

Church Notes: medieval church documented by 1303; present church 1704

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for this Woodcott [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU4354/woodcott/] [accessed 27 August 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 4, 1911) notes: "The church of Woodcott was appropriated to the use of the Prior and brethren of the hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England in 1303 [...] The church of St. James, a small building of flint and stone, erected in 1704 [...] The only old book of the registers is one containing baptisms, marriages and burials from 1578 to 1762; the others appear to be missing." There is no mention of the font in the VCH entry, but it is obvious from the registers that the medieval church had a font in use. [NB: we have no information on the font from the original church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.2911, -1.381

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 17′ 27.96″ N, 1° 22′ 51.6″ W

UTM: 30U 612889 5683442