Original sepia print of the rectory at Wonston with ladies, a gentleman and children in the garden, c. 1865

Photograph of the rectory at Wonston

Taken about 1865

Wonston, which is mentioned in the Domesday Book, lies about six miles north of Winchester, and parts of the extensive old gabled rectory seen here date back possibly as far as the fourteenth century.

The incumbent at Wonston in 1865 was the Reverend Alexander Robert Charles Dallas, and so he may be the gentleman photographed here with members of his family. At the window above and to the left of the door are a bird cage and a teddy bear, perhaps belonging to the little girl seated on the lawn beside another cage.

The photograph was taken by Winchester photographer William Savage (1817-87) and is found in an album entitled 'Hampshire Views of Churches, Country Houses and Public Buildings'.