Morestead / Morested
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches - 16
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by Chris Hayley [http://southernlife.org.uk/morestea.htm] [accessed 18 August 2011]
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view of church exterior - south view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by Chris Hayley [http://southernlife.org.uk/morestea.htm] [accessed 18 August 2011]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by Chris Hayley [http://southernlife.org.uk/morestea.htm] [accessed 18 August 2011]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris Hayley, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Chris Hayley [http://southernlife.org.uk/morestea.htm] [accessed 18 August 2011]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 17601MOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church
Church Location: Morestead, Winchester SO21 1LZ, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Hampshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located off (SE) the M3-A31 junction, 5 km SE of Winchester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Winchester
Historical Region: Hundred of Fawley
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the S doorway
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Transitional [altered]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Chris Hayley, of http://southernlife.org.uk, for his photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: "dedication unknown" in both the VCH & Crockford's
Font Notes:
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No entry found for Morestead / Morested in the Domesday survey. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 3, 1908) notes: "The church (no dedication known) is a small building with a twelfthcentury nave [...], a modern chancel of 1873 [...] The nave roof with its tie-beams is old, but all other fittings in the church are modern except the font, which stands near the south door, and is of a common late twelfth-century type, of Purbeck marble, with an octagonal bowl on a central and smaller flanking shafts, each face of the bowl being worked with two pointed arches." Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble; "subsidiary shafts probably renewed".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.02666, -1.2742
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 1′ 35.98″ N, 1° 16′ 27.12″ W
UTM: 30U 621025 5654207
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and plain, with ring handle; appears modern
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-08-18 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975