Savernake
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view of church exterior
Scene Description: a modern church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Trish Steel, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2009 by Trish Steel [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1469606] [accessed 27 February 2012]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the font at the east end, near the presbitery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Brian Robert Marshall, 2007
Image Source: digital photogra;ph taken 12 June 2007 by Brian Robert Marshall [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/464585] [aceessed 27 February 2012]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 17936SAV
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Katharine
Church Patron Saints: St. Catherine of Alexandria [aka Katherine, Katharine]
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located just S of Marlborough
Ecclesiastic Region: Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Kinwardstone
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave
Century and Period: 19th century, Victorian
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 16, 1999) notes: "In 1657, almost certainly after farmsteads had been built in Savernake great park and Brimslade park, it was proposed to build a church with the parks and the unimpaled forest as its parish. The proposal was not implemented until the 19th century." The VCH further adds that "A church built at Cadley in 1851 or 1852 collapsed, was rebuilt, and was consecrated in 1854". [NB: to our knowledge there was no medieval church in this parish].
Modern font in a modern church.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.382593,
-1.639282
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 22′ 57.34″ N,
1° 38′ 21.41″ W
UTM: 30U 594692 5693251
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-02-27 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.