Sarisbury nr. Titchfield
Image copyright © Chris Hayley, 2011
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view of church exterior - west end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris Hayley, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Chris Hayley [www.southernlife.org.uk/sarisbury_church.htm] [accessed 12 August 2011]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Scene Description: this font does not match the description in the VCH [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris Hayley, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Chris Hayley [www.southernlife.org.uk/sarisbury_church.htm] [accessed 12 August 2011]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 17582SAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Paul
Country Name: England
Location: Hampshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located near Titchfield, in the borough of Fareham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Portsmouth
Historical Region: Hundred of Titchfield
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the S entranceway
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Chris Haylry, of http://southernlife.org.uk, for his photographs of church and font
Font Notes:
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The Victoria County History entry for Titchfield (Hampshire, vol. 3, 1908) notes: "church [...] built in 1836, and partly rebuilt and enlarged in 1888 [...] The font, near the south door, has an octagonal bowl on a short stem, and may be of fifteenth-century date. This church is now used only as a mortuary chapel, a new building of the same name having been erected in 1871 to serve as the parish church." [NB: if the font is indeed of 15th-century date, could it have come from a nearby church? Titchfield, perhaps?] [NB: the photograph showing the font in this church does not match the VCH description: the basin is almost cylindrical and is raised on a base of clustered columns; the wooden cover is worthy of mention, resembling a Scandinavian wooden church, and redolent of medieval font covers on some Gotland fonts].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 620485 5637081
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-08-12 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.