Lainston

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.