Sparsholt nr. Winchester / Sparshall / Speresholte / Spershott

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view of church exterior - northeast view

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church interior - looking east

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the 19thC font and its 20thC cover

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the 19thC font and its 20thC cover

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the 19thC font and its 20thC cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 17633SPA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Stephen
Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen
Church Location: Church Lane, Sparsholt , Hampshire, SO21 2NR
Country Name: England
Location: Hampshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located off the B3049, W of Winchester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Winchester
Historical Region: Hundred of Buddlesgate
Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Chris Hayley, of http://southernlife.org.uk, and to Colin Smith for their photographs of this church and modern font
No entry found for this Sparsholt in the Domesday survey, but the Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 3, 1908) notes: "One of the nine churches mentioned in Domesday Book as pertaining to the manor of Chilcomb was probably the church of Sparsholt"; the plan of the present church "has developed from an aisleless nave and chancel church of twelfth-century date [...] The registers for Sparsholt and Lainston are contained in a single book, and record the baptisms from 1607 [...] All the fittings of the church are new, except for a good eighteenth-century organ screen". A major renovation was carried out by William Butterfield in the late-19th century. There is no font mentioned in the VCH entry. The modern font, octagonal basin on an octagonal slender pedestal base is probably from Butterfield's renovation of the church. The painted cover is 20th-century. [NB: we have no information on the medieval font].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.078659, -1.38013
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 4′ 43.17″ N, 1° 22′ 48.47″ W
UTM: 30U 613470 5659820

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-08-31 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.