The medieval St Michael's church at Netherton was deconstructed in 1864–6 with the chancel remaining as a mortuary chapel until about 1890. The font is said to have been taken to St Barnabas, Faccombe, and this piece of stonework noted as twelfth-century in the 1911 VCH Hants and echoed almost verbatim in the Pevsner 1967 and 2010 and elsewhere. There are no records of movement of the Netheron church's physical material in the Hants RO's documentation regarding the dismantling of St Michael’s Netherton, though this would have been at the edge of living memory at the time of the creation of the VCH Hants. Residents of the modern village of Netherton note that there are houses and walls in the area which have stonework embedded in them presumably from the deconstruction of the church in the mid-1800s but those pieces are, as of the time of this book going to press, not yet identified. A visual examination of the font in St Barnabas, Faccombe, does indicate a medieval piece, possibly but not necessarily specifically twelfth century.

Geophysical survey undertaken at the site of St Michael's Netherton churchyard in June 2018 and July 2019 with David Ashby and Thomas Hayes of the Archaeology Department, University of Winchester, identified the probable cemetery and churchyard area to the west of the churchyard, as well as the two-cell stone foundation of a likely nave and chancel, of which the chancel is evidenced in an undated photograph taken between 1864 and 1890 (Ashby forthcoming 2020, which will be archived with Archaeology Data Service, https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/; see Plate 3). Undated sketches of the church, published by Fairbrother, indicate a typically long, built-upon structure with a probable earlier chancel having added to it a nave, porch and tower. However, according to the staff at Netherton Rectory, these sketches were made in the twentieth century by the son of the then-Netherton Estate owner J. A. P. Charrington, long after the church had already been wholly deconstructed – perhaps based on the recollections of elderly villagers?