Seagry, Lower and Upper / Segrete / Segrie

INFORMATION

FontID: 12418SEA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Church Acre, Seagry, Wiltshire SN15 5EP
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located 7 km SSE of Malmesbury, 9 km NNE of Chippenham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bristol
Historical Region: Hundred of Malmesbury
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Norman
Church Notes: "church of ST. MARY, so called in 1763" [cf. VCH entry in bib.]
Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 notes that the Church of St. Mary in Seagry "is an irregular structure combining portions in the Norman and early English styles; it contains a very ancient font." The National Gazetteer of 1868 reports "an ancient font" in this church. Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. With band of triangle-headed arcading; Norman; circular." The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 4, 1991) notes: "Between 1182 and 1193 Alexander of Seagry gave Seagry church to Bradenstoke priory. [...] The south chapel and the style of the east window and of windows in the south wall of the chancel suggest that the 12th-century church was either much altered or rebuilt in the 13th century. The church was rebuilt in 1849 on the same plan, and in a 13th-century style [...] 12th-century font [...] retained from the old church."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 563827 5708388

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

The National Gazetteer: a Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles, London: Virtue & Co., 1868
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-02-15 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831