Lymington / Leminton / Lentune / Lymington / Lyminton
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view of church exterior - east view
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 4 August 1998 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3314115] [accessed 21 September 2018]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 17558LYM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Thomas the Apostle
Church Patron Saints: St. Thomas the Apostle
Church Location: 47-48 St Thomas St, Lymington SO41 9ND, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Hampshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A337, 2 km SW of Portmore, across the Solent from Yarmout
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Winchester
Historical Region: Borough of Lymington
Century and Period: Medieval
Church Notes: documented as a chapel of Christchurch Priory in mid-12thC; re-built 17th and 18thC
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Lymington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SZ3295/lymington/] [accessed 21 September 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 4, 1911) notes: "The earliest known record of a chapel at Lymington is in a charter of 1141–55 by which Baldwin de Redvers granted to Christchurch Twyneham the church of Boldre, with its chapels of Brockenhurst and Lymington. [...] the font is comparatively modern." There are nodetails of the old chapel function in the VCH entry; was it a full chapel-of-ease with baptismal, marriage, burial rights? [NB: we have no information on the font form the medieval church here]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.757556, -1.545167
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 45′ 27.2″ N, 1° 32′ 42.6″ W
UTM: 30U 602614 5623874
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-08-05 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.