Rockbourne / Rocheborne / Rechesburna / Rochesburna / Rogborne / Rokeburn
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Results: 4 records
view of church exterior
Scene Description: the present parish church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Trish Steel, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 March 2008 by Trish Steel [ww.geograph.org.uk/photo/739226] [accessed 5 August 2011]
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view of church exterior
Scene Description: former 13th-century chapel; now used as barn
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Trish Steel, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 March 2008 by Trish Steel [ww.geograph.org.uk/photo/739460] [accessed 5 August 2011]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the font cover, an octagonal peaked dome, is visible on the floor, behind the font, in the right corner
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Trish Steel, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 March 2008 by Trish Steel [ww.geograph.org.uk/photo/740465] [accessed 5 August 2011]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the 15th-century basin raised on a modern pedestal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 December 2011 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2739689] [accessed 18 September 2018]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 17551ROC
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Rockbourne Rd, Rockbourne, Fordingbridge SP6 3NW, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Hampshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located just W of Whitsbury and Brookheath, 5-6 km NW of Fordingbridge and the A338, 10 km S of Salisbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Winchester
Historical Region: Hundred of Fordingbridge
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 15th century [basin only] [composite font], Late Medieval
Church Notes: 11th/12thC church; modified 13th, 16th and 17thC;
There are three entries for Rockbourne [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU1118/rockbourne/] [accessed 18 September 2018] none of which mentions cleric or church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 4, 1911) notes: "Henry de Blois, Bishop of Winchester (1129–71), [...] confirmed the appropriation of the church to Breamore, and assigned a pension of 2s. to Crispin the priest. [...] The earliest building for which architectural evidence exists consisted of an aisleless cruciform 12th-century church [...] The font is octagonal, probably dating from the 15 th century, and has a modern base. [...] the font is now set at the west end of the nave in the space formerly occupied by the steps leading up from the old west door. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SU1163218400] notes: "At west of nave C15 octagonal font C19 base". [NB: we have no information on the font from the 12th-century church]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.96423,
-1.837
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 57′ 51.23″ N,
1° 50′ 13.2″ W
UTM: 30U 581669 5646491
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material:
wood?,
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal peaked dome with cross finial
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-08-05 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
