Shirley / Old Shirley

INFORMATION

Font ID: 17630SHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Old Parish Church [demolished ca. 1609]
Site Location: Hampshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Now a suburb of Southampton, to the W, near Millbrook
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Winchester
Historical Region: Hundred of Buddlesgate
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 3, 1908) notes: "There was a church in Shirley (Old Shirley) at the time of the Domesday Survey [...] upposed to have been pulled down about 1609, and its materials used to enlarge Millbrook church." [NB: Shirley had a new church built in 1836; we have no information on the whereabouts of the font of the demolished church].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 610460 5642849

REFERENCES

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