Great Bedwyn
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of church interior - capital
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 14145BED
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Church Street, Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire, SN8 3PE
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A4, 7 km SW of Hungerford, 10 km SE of Marlborough
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Kinwardstone
Century and Period: 10th century (?), Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and modern font
Font Notes:
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The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 16, 1999) notes: "A minster church may have stood at Great Bedwyn in the late 10th century [...] A church stood there in 1066"; the VCH entry does not mention a font in it. The Parish web site [http://www.greatbedwyn.com/church.html] [accessed 27 December 2008] notes: "The present church of St Mary's was started in 1092 [...] Beneath the church are the massive remains of a Saxon church begun in 905." The present font consists of a quatrefoil-shaped basin raised on clustered shafts; Victorian, of 1854; the flat wooden cover is modern as well [NB: we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 597294 5692900
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: quatrefoil-shaped and flat; with metal decoration and ring handle; modern