Cowes / West Cowes / Westcowe [disappeared?]
INFORMATION
FontID: 17676COW
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Isle of Wight, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the Wt bank of the estuary of the River Medina
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Portsmouth
Historical Region: Hundred of West Medine -- formerly Hampshire
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 5, 1912) notes: "The church of St. Mary, West Cowes, built in 1867 on the site of an earlier church erected in 1657 [...] The register dates from 1679." There is no font mentioned in the VCH. [NB: we have no information on the font of the mid-17th century church]. [NB: the Holy Trinity Church, also in Cowes, is a modern church]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.763333,
-1.301944
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 45′ 48″ N,
1° 18′ 7″ W
UTM: 30U 619754 5624882
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-09-12 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.