Millbrook nr. Southampton / Melebroc
Image copyright © Chris Hayley, 2011
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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
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 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
INFORMATION
Font ID: 17629MIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas [partially demolished; the tower remains]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Address: [the new church] Millbrook Rd W, Southampton SO15 0JZ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 23 8070 1896
Site Location: Hampshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (and the old church itself)
Font Notes:
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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)".
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Chris Hayley, of http://southernlife.org.uk, for his photograph of the modern font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 608716 5641602
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.915814, -1.453421
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 54′ 56.93″ N, 1° 27′ 12.32″ W
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.