Westport in Malmesbury / Westtport St. Mary

Image copyright © Duncan & Mandy Ball, 2011
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Results: 2 records
view of church exterior - south view
view of church exterior - southeast view
INFORMATION
FontID: 17914WES
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin [cf. FontNotes]
Church Location: [cf. FontNotes]
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Westport is now incorporated in the borough of Malmesbury; it is located in the NW area of town
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bristol
Historical Region: Hundred of Malmesbury
Century and Period: 10th - 11th century, Pre-Conquest
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Duncan & Mandy Ball, of www.oodwooc.co.uk, for their photographs of the former modern church, now a hall
Church Notes: the two medieval churches no longer exists [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 14, 1991) notes: "there was a church at Westport in the late Saxon period [...] The small pre-Conquest church, of which the nave survives, stood north of Bristol Street. It was apparently known in the later Middle Ages as St. Helen's, and was presumably converted for other uses after the Dissolution. [...] The church of St. Mary, standing and so called in the later 12th century [...] was destroyed during the Civil War [...] A small church [...] was built after the war [...] After it was rebuilt c. 1840 [...] it had an undivided chancel and nave with a south aisle of five bays and a western bellcot. [...] Registers of baptisms and burials survive from 1678 [...] A western gallery was later removed, and the arcade was blocked when the church was converted to a hall." [NB: we have no information from the fonts of the two medieval churches].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 562260 5715314
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-02-15 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.