Potsgrove / Potesgrava / Potesgrave / Pottesgrove
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view of church exterior - south view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 March 2007 by Rob Farrow [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/370570] [accessed 26 October 2011]
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view of church exterior - west view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rob Farrow, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 March 2007 by Rob Farrow [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/370576] [accessed 23 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 17697POT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin [redundant]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Potsgrove, Central Bedfordshire MK17 9HG
Country Name: England
Location: Bedfordshire, East
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A5, 5 km SE of Woburn, 8 km NE of Leighton Buzzard, near the Bucks. county border
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans [formerly in the Diocese of Ely; and Lincoln?]
Historical Region: Hundred of Manshead
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
Church Notes: Building now [October 2011] under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There are four entries for Potsgrove [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP9529/potsgrove/] [accessed 23 September 2015], but none mentions cleric or church in it, except one of the parts had as lord in 1066 "Morcar the priest of Luton", who no longer held the place in 1086. The Victoria County History (Bedfordshire, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "The church of Potsgrove was granted by Henry II [1154-1189] to the monastery of St. Albans [...] The church of St. Mary was 'entirely restored' in 1881 [...] Inside, however, the old plastering and the stonework of the jambs and heads of some of the windows show that a good deal of the mediaeval church remains. [...] The whole belongs to c. 1320–40, though a few 12th and 13th-century stones built into the north wall of the nave show that an earlier church existed. [...] The font, of Purbeck marble, is modern". [NB: we have no information on its medieval font].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.959,
-0.6167
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 57′ 32.4″ N,
0° 37′ 0.12″ W
UTM: 30U 663753 5759161
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-10-26 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.