Southampton No. 2 / Hamwic / Hantune

Results: 3 records

angel - cherub - 8?

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

view of church exterior

Scene Description: the former church, damaged in a 1940 bombing, is now a Merchant Navy memorial

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Nevell, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2014 by Richard Nevell [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Holy_Rood_Church,_Southampton,_June2014_(8).jpg] [accessed 30 July 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: the former church, damaged in a 1940 bombing, is now a Merchant Navy memorial

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Nevell, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2014 by Richard Nevell [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Holy_Rood_Church,_Southampton,_June2014_(11).jpg] [accessed 30 July 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 17640SOU
Church/Chapel: Holyrood Parish Church [aka Holy Rood, Holy Cross]
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Cross
Church Location: 3-5 Bernard St, Southampton SO14 3AU, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Hampshire, South East
Directions to Site: The church was originally located on English St. [later High St.];
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Winchester
Historical Region: Hundred of Mansbridge
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the organ loft
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church Notes: The church was originally located on English St. [later High St.]; re-built in its present location ca. 1320; mostly destroyed in a 1940 bombing
There are four entries for Southampton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU4111/southampton/] [accessed 30 July 2019], one of which reports "3 churches. 1.0 church lands" in it. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 3, 1908) notes: "The church of this parish stood originally in the middle of the High Street in front of its present position [...] in 1320 the church was rebuilt where it now stands [...] The fifteenth-century font has an octagonal panelled bowl and stem, with angels below the bowl". The font is located now beneath the organ loft, probably not its original location. [NB: we have no information on the earlier font of this church].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.89966, -1.40353
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 53′ 58.78″ N, 1° 24′ 12.71″ W
UTM: 30U 612262 5639881

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-09-01 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.