Sparsholt nr. Winchester / Sparshall / Speresholte / Spershott

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].