Tichborne No. 2
INFORMATION
Font ID: 17605TIC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1, base only
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [base only?], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: [reported in the churchyard in 1849] [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: Beech Tree Cottages, Tichborne, Hampshire SO24 0NA, UK
Site Location: Hampshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the B3046, SE of the A31, 6-7 km E of Winchester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Winchester
Historical Region: Hundred of Fawley
Additional Comments: fragment of font / disused font [reported in the churchyard in 1849]
Font Notes:
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No entry found for Tichborne in the Domesday survey. The Proceedings of the Brtish Archaeological Association, reported in The Archaeological Journal (issue of April 1849: 80) include a note referent to this font: "Mr. F.I. Baigent [i.e., Francis Joseph Baigent] presented drawings of a font in Tichbourne church, Hants: its circumference at the top was about eight feet, and it was composed of the Isle of Wight stone. In the churchyard there is also the base of an old font of purbeck marble, which stood upon four pillars." [NB: we have no recent confirmation on the whereabouts of this base] [cf. Index entry for the re-cut font in this church].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 626835 5659046
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.0689, -1.1897
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 4′ 8.04″ N, 1° 11′ 22.92″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Number of Pieces: base only