Charford / Cerdeford [Domesday] / Cerdickford / Chatford / Cherdeford / Cherford / North Charford / South Charford

INFORMATION

FontID: 17548CHA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul [disappeared]
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Location: [cf. Directions Geo for the approximate location of the former church site]
Country Name: England
Location: Hampshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located N of Hale, 10 km from Salisbury, near the border with Wiltshire
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Winchester
Historical Region: Hundred of Fordingbridge
Century and Period: Medieval
Font Notes:
There are two entries for [North] Charford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/hants/vol4/pp560-563] [accessed 17 September 2018], neither of which mnetions cleric or church in it. There are also two entries for [South] Charford [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU1618/south-charford/] [accessed 17 September 2018], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it either. A church in ruins at North Charfors is reported in Carlisle' s Topographical Dictionary (London, 1808), v. 1, unpaged. Lewis (1831) reports a church dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul already in ruins. The National Gazetteer of 1868 reported, probably after Lewis: "The church, once dedicated to SS. Peter and Paul, has long been in ruins." The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 4, 1911) notes: "North Charford Chapel was built by the beginning of the 14th century [...] The chapel with its tithes is mentioned in 1628, [...] but before 1727 it was in ruins, [...] and there is no trace of it at the present day. The chapel of South Charford [...] was dedicated in 1404 [...] Already the chapel was in ruins [ca. 1777] [...] The site is still to be seen in a field near South Charford Farm." [NB: we have no information on the possible fonts from either church].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 589862 5647936

REFERENCES

The National Gazetteer: a Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles, London: Virtue & Co., 1868
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2018-09-17 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831