Sandleford

INFORMATION

FontID: 17709SAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: [former] Priory Church of St. John the Baptist [now library of a school]
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: St. Gabriel's, Sandleford Priory, Newbury, Berkshire RG20 9BD [cf. ChurchNotes]
Country Name: England
Location: Berkshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located 3 km S of Newbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Faircross
Century and Period: Medieval
Church Notes: The former priory, founded for the Augustinian Canons ca. 1200, is now incorporated into St Gabriel's School, Sandleford, where the old chapel is now the school's library
Font Notes:
No entry found for Sandleford in the Domesday survey. The Victoria County History (Berkshire, vol. 4, 2011) notes "The greater part of the parish was included in the manor of 'Ulvritone' at the time of the Domesday Survey, but was granted to the Prior and canons of Sandleford by Geoffrey fourth Count of Perch and Maud his wife when they founded the priory between 1193 and 1202. [...] The remainder consists of contiguous lands, originally in the manor of Greenham, granted to the prior and canons in 1349 by John de Estbury and others. [...] in the reign of James I a dispute as to the tithes came before the King's Bench in 1615, when it was decided that Sandleford was not within the parish of Newbury, but was a parish by itself." [NB: not clear whether the priory church ever had full parochial functions].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.377019, -1.316326
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 22′ 37.27″ N, 1° 18′ 58.78″ W
UTM: 30U 617179 5693097

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-11-01 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.