Winnall / Wylehal / Wynhale / Wynhall

INFORMATION

Font ID: 17609WIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Martin [church demolished in 1971]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Church Notes: church demolished in 1971
Site Location: Hampshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B3404, to the N, and now a suburb, of Winchester, near the University of Southampton site
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Winchester
Historical Region: Hundred of Fawley
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
No entry found for this Winnall in the Domesday survey. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 3, 1908) notes: "The church of St. Martin, Winnall, was probably one of the nine churches included under Chilcomb in the Domesday Survey [1086] [...] The register of baptisms dates from 1680 [...] The church [...] was rebuilt in 1858 of flint and stone in thirteenth-century style". There is no mention of a font in the VCH entry. [NB: we have no information on the medieval font here].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 619322 5658470

REFERENCES

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