Bradford-on-Avon No. 4 / Bradeford / Great Bradford

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view of church exterior

Source caption: "Church Of St Lawrence"
Scene Description: Source caption: "Church Of St Lawrence"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Landlinegraphics, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 11 December 2012 by Landlinegraphics [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bradford_on_Avon_Saxon_chapel_from_N.jpg] [accessed 9 February 2023]
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view of church exterior - north portal

Source caption: "Bradford on Avon Church (St. Lawrence), 19 July 2015. Saxon Church from early 11th Century - John Betjeman thought it the most notable Saxon church in England. Over the centuries the church was 'lost', being absorbed into other buildings including a school and a house. It was rediscovered in 1871 and restored over the next decade. Pictured is the Saxon doorway from the nave into the north porticus."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Bradford on Avon Church (St. Lawrence), 19 July 2015. Saxon Church from early 11th Century - John Betjeman thought it the most notable Saxon church in England. Over the centuries the church was 'lost', being absorbed into other buildings including a school and a house. It was rediscovered in 1871 and restored over the next decade. Pictured is the Saxon doorway from the nave into the north porticus."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hugh Llewelyn, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 19 July 2015 by Hugh Llewelyn [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bradford_on_Avon_Church_(St._Lawrence)_(19612172654).jpg] [accessed 9 February 2023]
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view of church exterior - northeast view

the church as it must have looked ca. 1878
Scene Description: the church as it must have looked ca. 1878
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Jones (1878)
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view of church exterior - south view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Craig Thornber, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004 or 2005 by Craig Thornber [http://www.thornber.net/england/htmlfiles/bradford_on_avon.html] [accessed 22 November 2008]
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view of church exterior - southwest view

Source caption: "Bradford on Avon St Laurence's Church a rare Saxon church"
Scene Description: Source caption: "Bradford on Avon St Laurence's Church a rare Saxon church"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michel Garlick, 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a 18 September 2014 by Michael Garlick [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bradford_on_Avon_St_Laurence's_Church_a_rare_Saxon_church.JPG] [accessed 9 February 2023]
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view of church interior - chancel and east end

Source caption: "Inside the Saxon church"
Scene Description: Source caption: "Inside the Saxon church"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Charles Miller, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 18 April 2011 by Charles Miller [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Inside_the_Saxon_church.jpg] [accessed 9 February 2023]
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view of church interior - chancel arch

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Craig Thornber, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004 or 2005 by Craig Thornber [http://www.thornber.net/england/htmlfiles/bradford_on_avon.html] [accessed 22 November 2008]
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view of church interior - cross - fragment

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Charles Miller, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 18 April 2011 by Charles Miller [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Inside_the_Saxon_church.jpg] [accessed 9 February 2023]
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view of church interior - east side - detail

Source caption: "Bradford on Avon Church (St. Lawrence), 19 July 2015. Saxon Church from early 11th Century - John Betjeman thought it the most notable Saxon church in England. Over the centuries the church was 'lost', being absorbed into other buildings including a school and a house. It was rediscovered in 1871 and restored over the next decade. Pictured are Saxon angels inserted in the east wall of the nave."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Bradford on Avon Church (St. Lawrence), 19 July 2015. Saxon Church from early 11th Century - John Betjeman thought it the most notable Saxon church in England. Over the centuries the church was 'lost', being absorbed into other buildings including a school and a house. It was rediscovered in 1871 and restored over the next decade. Pictured are Saxon angels inserted in the east wall of the nave."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hugh Llewelyn, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 19 July 2015 by Hugh Llewelyn [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bradford_on_Avon_Church_(St._Lawrence)_(19613837353).jpg] [accessed 9 February 2023]
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view of font or object

Source caption: "Bradford on Avon Church (St. Lawrence), 19 July 2015. Saxon Church from early 11th Century - John Betjeman thought it the most notable Saxon church in England. Over the centuries the church was 'lost', being absorbed into other buildings including a school and a house. It was rediscovered in 1871 and restored over the next decade. Pictured is what is possibly a Saxon font." [NB: the basin looks suspiciously like a medieval measure]
Scene Description: Source caption: "Bradford on Avon Church (St. Lawrence), 19 July 2015. Saxon Church from early 11th Century - John Betjeman thought it the most notable Saxon church in England. Over the centuries the church was 'lost', being absorbed into other buildings including a school and a house. It was rediscovered in 1871 and restored over the next decade. Pictured is what is possibly a Saxon font." [NB: the basin looks suspiciously like a medieval measure]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hugh Llewelyn, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 19 July 2015 by Hugh Llewelyn [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bradford_on_Avon_Church_(St._Lawrence)_(20048231569).jpg] [accessed 9 February 2023]
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view of object

the object being displayed as a font [cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: the object being displayed as a font [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Craig Thornber, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004 or 2005 by Craig Thornber [http://www.thornber.net/england/htmlfiles/bradford_on_avon.html] [accessed 22 November 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of object

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Immanuel Giel, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken on 21 August 2007 by Immanuel Giel [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:St_Laurence_Bradford_font.JPG] [accessed 22 November 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Image released by the author into the public domain

INFORMATION

FontID: 13999BRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Chapel of St. Laurence
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Location: Church St, Bradford-on-Avon BA15 1LW, United Kingdom
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B3108, on the N bank of the Avon river, 8-9 km ESE of Bath town centre
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Craig Thornber, of www.thornber.net, for his photographs of church and 'font'
Font Notes:
Jones (1878) does not mention any font inside this church, nor does he include any in his plan of the interior or in his description of the [north] porch. Buck (1950) suggests that the font at the Anglo-Saxon Chapel of St. Laurence's "disappeared during the desecration of the building in the early part of the nineteenth century, if not before". Thornber (2004-2005) reports: "A stone bowl that was found in the vicinity is now used as a font", and illustrates the object, a square vessel resembling a medieval morter or grain measure, raised on a quadrangular pedestal; the workmanship of the bowl is typical of such domestic objects, though it does have an angle decoration, as some of them are do [cf. Bond (1908) for some comments à propos the assignation of a wrong liturgical identity to medieval domestic objects]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.347, -2.2538
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 20′ 49.2″ N, 2° 15′ 13.68″ W
UTM: 30U 551969 5688678

REFERENCES

Jones, W.H. (canon), An Account of the Saxon Church of St. Laurence, Bradford-on-Avon, Bath: William Lewis, 1878