Shirley / Old Shirley

INFORMATION

FontID: 17630SHI
Church/Chapel: Old Parish Church [demolished ca. 1609]
Country Name: England
Location: Hampshire, South East
Directions to Site: Now a suburb of Southampton, to the W, near Millbrook
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Winchester
Historical Region: Hundred of Buddlesgate
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
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-. Accessed: 2011-08-30 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.