Nether Wallop / Wallop / Wallope / Wappol / Welhop / Wellop / Netherwellup

There are two entries for [Nether] Wallop [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU3036/nether-wallop/] [accessed 8 September 2015], one of which mentions two churches and one hide in church lands in it. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 4, 1911) notes: "The history of the building appears to be that an aisleless nave and chancel [...] stood here early in the 12th century, having in its north wall the doorway which is now in the north aisle. Towards the end of the 12th century a south aisle was added to the nave, and in the first quarter of the 13th a considerable scheme of enlargement was begun. [...] The present west tower was built in 1704, but its east wall seems part of an older tower on the same site. [...] The octagonal font is modern, of 15th-century style." The modern -19thC- font is located at the west end of the nave. The Parish web site [www.thewallops.net/NWallop/Church/Church.htm] [accessed 4 August 2011] describes the church as Anglo-Saxon and mentions "the only Anglo-Saxon wall painting to survive in situ [...] the precious legacy of artists of the Winchester School who worked here around the year 1020."