NHER 7118 (Monument record) - Testerton deserted village and Church of St Remigius

Testerton.
Ditches at TF 9389 2655 noted by P. Wade-Martins (NAU) on St Joseph aerial photographs of 1961.
Soilmarks at TF 937 268 - light scatter of medieval sherds found by P. Wade-Martins (NAU) 1969.

27 October 1976.
Whole area cultivated; some fields under crop, some ploughed.
In latter no traces of earthworks except perhaps southeast of Testerton House.
In field around church site, wide scatter brick fragments, too small to be dated.
E. Rose (NAU), 28 October 1976.

St. Remigius's Church Ruins (context 1) at 9379 2684.
Only fragment of west tower remains; flint with west window with brick arch, stone frame.
Southwest buttress stone - panelled 14th-15th century?
Recorded as ruined in 1602 (Listed).
E. Rose.

9 September 1977.
Negative cropmarks indicating buried foundations show church had apsidal east end; also indicate division between nave
and chancel. Only vague rectangular faint marks appear of the village plots.
D. A. Edwards (NAU), 11 March 1981.

19th century print in Bolingbroke Collection of Testerton House shows church in background; tower only shows, with north and south walls broken off to east, barrel vault to ground floor, west window with Y-tracery and transom, but these could be late imitation - shown as very thin.
E. Rose (NAU), 16 January 1984.

Mentioned in Domesday and Nomina Villarum 1316, Lay Subsidy of 1329.
OS Records.
R. J. Rickett (NAU), 7 June 1990.

December 1994. Detector finds. [1]
Possible Roman loop, two possible Late Saxon spindle whorls, medieval and post medieval coins and metalwork including early medieval openwork mount.
See list and forms in secondary file.
D. Gurney (NLA), 6 January 1995.

List of aerial photographs in file.
Appropriate section from (S3) in file.

8 May 1998. NLA air photography.
Large square enclosure visible to east of ruined church.
The cropmarks of which appear to be negative, although it may be reversal effect.
S. Massey (NLA), 22 November 2001.

August 2009.
See (S4) for a discussion of the medieval buckle plate found in 1994.
H. White, (NLA), 28 August 2009

30th May 2013. Field Visit.
The site was visited as part of an Environmental Stewardship HLS consultation. The remains of the church are entirely covered in ivy and surrounded by a failing metal fence. Trees are also growing within the fence.
K. Powell (HES), 17 April 2015