Waddon nr. Selborne / Whaddon(Hampshire) [disappeared?]

INFORMATION

Font ID: 17562WAD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Chapel of St. Mary at Waddon [demolished]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: the coordenates given here are for Oakhanger; the precise site of the disappeared chapel is no longer known
Site Location: Hampshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: The old chapel was located near Oakhanger, on the road to Selborne
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Winchester
Historical Region: Selborne Hundred
Additional Comments: didsappeared font?
Font Notes:
The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 3, 1908) notes: "the chapel of St. Mary of Waddon, or Whaddon, from which the vicar of Selborne received a moiety of all oblations. [...] Repairs to the chapel of St. Mary of Waddon, which had evidently been burnt down shortly before, were entered in the rent roll of the prior and convent in 1463.[...] There are no remains of the building existing [i.e., ca. 1908], nor were there in Gilbert White's time [1720-1793]. He tells, though, of a large hollow stone which, according to tradition, was the Waddon chapel baptismal font." [NB: we have no information on the present whereabouts of this object].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 646786 5664714

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

  • Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.