Bradenstoke / Bradenstoke-cum-Clack
INFORMATION
Font ID: 13742BRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 19th century (mid?), Victorian
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: Part of the materials of the former Augustinian Priory were used in the rebuilding of a castle near Llantwit Major by William Randolph Hearst in the 1930s
Site Location: Wiltshire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located near Lyneham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Kingsbridge
Font Notes:
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Noted in the Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 9, 1970). Described in Pevsner & Cherry (1975), with reference to 'Jackson's Wiltshire Collections', as a font exhibited in the Great Exhibition (1851? / 1862?): "Small, with the Signs of the Evangelists, the Dove, and the Cross". [NB: no record of an earlier church here, although an Augustinian Priory existed here since the mid-12th century untill the Dissolution and its church may have well have had a baptismal font in it].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 569397 5707015
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 127