New Alresford No. 1 / Alresforda

INFORMATION

FontID: 17610ALR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist [originally from the church destroyed in 1689]
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: West St, New Alresford SO24 9AG, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1962 732105
Country Name: England
Location: Hampshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located 12 km NE of Winchester, 20 km SW of Alton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Winchester
Historical Region: Liberty of Alresford
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Church Notes: the name New Alresford is pre-Conquest, and said to date from the time of a confrontation between Saxons and Danes [source: Hants N. and Q. iii, 66., cited in the VCH entry]
The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 3, 1908) notes: "the entry in Domesday Book shows quite well that it comprised the modern parishes of New Alresford, Old Alresford, and Medsted, and perhaps that of Wield, for no less than three churches are included in the extent representing the churches of New and Old Alresford and Medsted, and leading to the inference that New Alresford and Medsted were settled villages with separate churches. [...] The church of St. John the Baptist was burnt in the fire which destroyed so much of the town in 1689, the tower and walls of the nave alone remaining [...] In 1897–8 the late seventeenth-century building was replaced by modern Gothic work [...] part of a twelfth-century font found during the repairs". [cf. Index entry for New Alresford No. 2 for a fragment of a 14th-century font].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.0902, -1.161
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 5′ 24.72″ N, 1° 9′ 39.6″ W
UTM: 30U 628787 5661464

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: fragment

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-08-19 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.