Heytesbury No. 1 / Haytchbury / Hegtredesbyri / Hestrebe

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2016 by David Martin [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5026366] [accessed 22 January 2020]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of St. Peter and St. Paul. The church was originally collegiate which would account for its imposing size".

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 June 2007 by Kevin Farmer [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1946840] [accessed 22 January 2020

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "The Church of St Peter and St Paul. Looking west down the length of the church from the sanctuary steps."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 December 2010 by Maigheach-gheal [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2219234] [accessed 22 December 2020]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Font, The Church of St Peter and St Paul [...] The coloured marble font dates from the Butterfield restoration of 1864 to 1867."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 December 2010 by Maigheach-gheal [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2218822] [accessed 22 December 2020]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13775HEY

Church/Chapel: Collegiate Church of St. Peter and St. Paul

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul

Church Location: High St, Heytesbury, Warminster BA12 0EF, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Wiltshire, South West

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A36, 5 km ESE of Warminster

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury

Historical Region: Hundred of Heytesbury

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Heytesbury in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/ST9242/heytesbury/] [accessed 22 January 2020]; it mentions "1 church. 3.0 church lands" and notes "Alward the priest" as the lord in 1086. The present font in this church [cf. Index entry for Heytesbury No. 2] dates from the 'over-restoration' -as Pevsner (1975) describes it- by Butterfield in 1865. There is no trace of the original font locally, but the Catalogue of the manuscripts, maps, charts […] of the British Museum (1844) lists a "Drawing, in Indian ink, of the square stone font at Heytesbury; by S.H. Grimm, in August, 1790: 10 1/2 in. x 7 1/2 in. (P.R. Kaye, IV. 482", representing probably the original Norman font. The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 3, 1956) mentions that the church of Heytesbury is noted in the Domesday Book. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: ST9250142559] notes: "Collegiate and Anglican parish church. Late C12, C13, C14, C15, C16, restored 1864-67 by W. Butterfield [...] Butterfield fittings include coloured marble font in south aisle".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.1823, -2.1086

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 10′ 56.28″ N, 2° 6′ 30.96″ W

UTM: 30U 562303 5670475

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: square

Basin Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2008-12-29 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

British Museum, Catalogue of the manuscript maps, charts, and plans, and of the topographical drawings in the British Museum, London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1844-

Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912