Wield nr. Alton / Upper Wield / Walde / Welde / Wolde

No entry for Wield found in the Domesday survey. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 3, 1908) notes: "At the time of the Domesday Survey there is no mention of a church in Wield, [...] the earliest mention seems to be in the year 1280 [...] The nave walls are of twelfthcentury date, probably c. 1150 [...] The font, at the west of the nave, is of Purbeck marble, with a shallow square arcaded bowl on a central and four angle shafts, of late twelfth-century date; it was dug up in a garden in the Close at Winchester, and lately given to Wield church." The entry for this church in British Listed Buildings [source ID: 1094078] notes: "The font is Norman, being a square Purbeck slab with arcading, resting on a drum and 4 detached columns (brought to the church in 1900 following its discovery in Winchester Close)." Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble: "bowl with seven panels on each face" [actually, six panels per face] [source given: Hampshire Field Club].