Blendworth / Blednewyth / Blenelworth / Bleneworth / Blonewrth

INFORMATION

Font ID: 17568BLE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Giles [demolished 1960s; replaced by Holy Trinity's]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]
Site Location: Hampshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A3, just NE of Horndean
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Winchester
Historical Region: Hundred of Finchdean
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the medieval one)
Font Notes:
No entry found for Blendworth in the Domesday survey. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 3, 1908) reports two churches in Blendworth: St. Giles' and Holy Trinity's; the latter was built in 1851, but St. Giles' "is a little rectangular building [...] showing no features which can be older than the eighteenth century, though it may well be that the masonry of the walls is mediaeval [...] The first book of the registers contains baptisms 1586–1726". [NB: St. Giles' is reported demolished in the 1960s].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 641848 5642577
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.91738, -0.982
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 55′ 2.57″ N, 0° 58′ 55.2″ W

REFERENCES

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