Welsh Bicknor / Llangystennin Garth Brenni

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Margaret's Welsh Bicknor. A Victorian [1859] church in a Norman style, built on the site of a former Norman church. Welsh Bicknor was once in a detached part of Monmouthshire and until 1844 was indeed in Wales. The church must have served a very small and scattered community."

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2010 by Gordon Hatton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1903534] [accessed 11 December 2018]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09661BIC
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret
Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Church Location: Welsh Bicknor, Ross-on-Wye HR9 6JJ, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the B4234, 10 km S of Ross-on-Wye, NE of Monmouth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford
Historical Region: formerly a detached parish of Monmouthshire
Font Location in Church: Reported in the courtyard ca. 1930
Century and Period: , Medieval
The entry for this place in the Inventory of Historical Monuments, Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. I: 248) as a circular bowl found in the churchyard "perhaps of a font with shallow sinking and of rough workmanship, date uncertain. Within bowl broken piscina, of 'cushion' shape with square sinking, mediæval." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SO5922817675] notes: "Parish church. Ancient site, church rebuilt 1858-9 by T Henry Rushforth of London"; the entry mentions a modern font among the "Fittings: pulpit, entered from vestry, with polychrome marble insets and heads, similar enrichments to font."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.85549, -2.5938
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 51′ 19.76″ N, 2° 35′ 37.68″ W
UTM: 30U 527975 5745044

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: round
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1931-1934