Lainston

INFORMATION

Font ID: 17634LAI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter [reported in ruins ca. 1908]
Font Location in Church: Among the ruins of the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: Woodman Lane, Sparsholt, Hampshire SO21 2LT
Site Location: Hampshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Lainston is a hamlet near Sparsholt, 5 km NW of Winchester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Winchester
Historical Region: Hundred of Buddlesgate
Additional Comments: the coordinates given abpove are for the nearby Lainston House hotel
Font Notes:
This church was reported in ruins already in Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer... (1870-1872), and may have been in ruins for almost a century by then. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 3, 1908) notes: "The ruined church of St. Peter, Lainston, is a simple aisleless building, the north, south, and west walls still standing. Enough remains to show that it was of late twelfth-century date [...] The registers for Sparsholt and Lainston are contained in a single book, and record the baptisms from 1607 [...] There was originally a separate register for Lainston Church taken to London during the trial of Elizabeth Chudleigh in 1776, and never recovered." The British Listed Buildings database [www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-145927-st-peters-church-ruin-sparsholt] [accessed 31 August 2011] reports an "octagonal font" among the ruins of this church.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 614229 5660233

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

  • Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
  • Wilson, John Marius, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales: embracing recent changes in counties, dioceses, parishes, and boroughs [...], Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co., 1870-1872, cited in www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/place_page.jsp?p_id=4767 [accessed 31 August 2011]