Easton Royal / Easton nr. Marlborough
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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INFORMATION
FontID: 17935EAS
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity [formerly St. Mary's]
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity [dedicated to St. Mary in 1323]
Church Location: Easton Royal, Wiltshire, SN9 5LZ
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located 5 km E of Pewsey, 7 km SSE of Marlborough
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Kinwardstone
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1591?
Century and Period: 16th century, Elizabethan
Church Notes: "church, called St. Mary's in 1323," [cf. VCH entry in bib.]
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font.Octagonal, of goblet shape, plain, also, no doubt of c.1591". The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 16, 1999) notes: "In 1086 on the king's large estate called Wootton there were two churches belonging to the abbey of Mont St. Michel (Manche), one of which may have stood at Easton. [...] Later Easton church may have belonged to the abbey of la Trinité du Mont, Rouen (Seine-Maritime), until, between 1193 and 1198 [...] In 1369 it was demolished, permission was given for its materials to be used to enlarge the priory church, and the parishioners were licensed to use the priory church as the parish church. [...] The church was badly damaged or destroyed in the fire of 1493 (fn. 38) and apparently repaired or rebuilt. In 1536, 1553, and 1556 [...] the old priory church was demolished presumably about [1591] [...] dedication of the new church, called Holy Trinity in 1763, [...] The body of the church and the porch survive from 1591.[...] Registers from 1580 are extant and complete"; there is no mention of a font in the VCH entry for this parish.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.342133,
-1.704348
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 20′ 31.68″ N,
1° 42′ 15.65″ W
UTM: 30U 590243 5688669
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-02-23 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912