Widley / Wydele / Wydelig

Results: 4 records

design element - motifs - floral - rose - crowned rose

design element - motifs - leaf - acanthus

inscription

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

view of church exterior in context - ruins

Scene Description: Source caption: "The site of the church of St. Mary Magdalene, Widley. The church here (which had been rebuilt in 1849) was demolished in 1953 having been effectively replaced by Christ Church, Portsdown".

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jonathan Thacker, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 October 2016 by Jonathan Thacker [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5179224] [accessed 25 June 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 17576WID
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalen [demolished in 1953]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary Magdalene
Church Location: London Rd, Portsmouth, Waterlooville PO6 3NB, UK -- Tel.: +44 23 9237 9992
Country Name: England
Location: Hampshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the B2177, 8 km N of Portsmouth, now part of Greater Portsmouth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Portsmouth
Historical Region: Hundred of Portsdown
Date: 1690?
Century and Period: 17th century(late?), Restoration
No entry found for Widley in the Domesday survey. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 3, 1908) notes: "The earliest mention of a church at Widley seems to be in the year 1291, when the rectory of Widley was assessed at £4 6s. 8d. [...] The church of St. Mary Magdalen was entirely rebuilt in 1849 [...] Nothing of the old church has been preserved except a small font with a slender bowl on which is IS 1690. It is built into the north wall of the chancel to serve as a credence, three faces of the bowl being exposed, on one of which is the date already noted, and on the others an acanthus leaf and a crowned rose respectively." [NB: we have no information on the font from the medieval church, or the whereabouts of the 17th-century font after the demolition of St Mary's church in 1953].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.85683, -1.04806
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 51′ 24.59″ N, 1° 2′ 53.02″ W
UTM: 30U 637383 5635719

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: letters and numbers
Inscription Location: on one of the exposed sides of the basin
Inscription Text: "IS 1690"
Inscription Source: VCH entry [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-08-11 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.