Millbrook nr. Southampton / Melebroc

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Image copyright © Chris Hayley, 2011

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Nicholas church, depicted in a charming hand-coloured postcard circa 1900. (A Stewart collection)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Holy Trinity Parish, 2015
Image Source: hand-painted postcard (undated; ca. 1900) in the Parish of the Holy Trinity, Millbrook, Southampton [http://holytrinitymillbrook.org.uk/images/gallery/hist01.jpg] [accessed 18 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: the new church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexander P Kapp, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 May 2009 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1308783] [accessed 18 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font in the modern church (Holy Trinity's)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris Hayley, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Chris Hayley [http://southernlife.org.uk/millbrook.htm] [accessed 30 August 2011]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 17629MIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas [partially demolished; the tower remains]
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: [the new church] Millbrook Rd W, Southampton SO15 0JZ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 23 8070 1896
Country Name: England
Location: Hampshire, South East
Directions to Site: Now a suburb of Southampton, on the A33
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Winchester
Historical Region: Hundred of Mansbridge [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Buddlesgate
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Chris Hayley, of http://southernlife.org.uk, for his photograph of the modern font
Font Notes:
There is an entry for this Millbrook [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU3813/millbrook/] [accessed 18 September 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 3, 1908) notes: "The tower is the only ancient part of the church of St. Nicholas, Millbrook, plain fifteenth-century work of three stages. The rest of the church was rebuilt in pseudo-Gothic style in 1824, and has a chancel with nave and shallow transepts, slate-roofed and plaster ceiled, fitted with deal pews and galleries. The font, of the same style, stands at the west of the chancel, and the whole building, no longer in regular use, is damp, dusty, and neglected." This church was replaced by a new one, Holy Trinity, built in 1873. One source [http://southernlife.org.uk/millbrook_church.htm] [accessed 30 August 2011] reports: "An Act of Parliament in 1939 absolved [?] to demolish the church and the Southern Daily Echo published a picture of the work in progress. As stated at the beginning of this piece, the whole area was redeveloped to make way for the new dual carriageway Millbrook Road, Dock development, and houses in the 1980’s. -- (Kindly contributed by Vicki Turner, Southampton)".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.915814, -1.453421
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 54′ 56.93″ N, 1° 27′ 12.32″ W
UTM: 30U 608716 5641602

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-08-30 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.