Temple Grafton / Grastone
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Results: 4 records
view of church exterior - northeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 January 2013 by David P Howard [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3352894] [accessed 21 November 2014]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "The south side of the church from the edge of the churchyard. Many scholars believe this to be the place where William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, since records of the marriage do not appear in Stratford itself, and a licence was issued for Shakespeare to marry in Temple Grafton. However marriage records for the period have been lost."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David P Howard, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 January 2013 by David P Howard [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3315228] [accessed 21 November 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - west view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David P Howard, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 January 2013 by David P Howard [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3315701] [accessed 21 November 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font and cover [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aidan McRae Thomson, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2014 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/14718186733/in/pool-fonts/] [accessed 21 November 2014
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INFORMATION
FontID: 19526TEM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Church Bank, Temple Grafton, Warwickshire B49 6PA
Country Name: England
Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 7 km E of Alcester, 24 W of Warwick
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Coventry
Historical Region: Hundred of Ferncombe [in Domesday times] -- Hundred of Barlichway
Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for [Temple] Grafton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP1254/temple-grafton/] [accessed 21 November 2014]; it reports a priest but does not mention a church in it, though there probably was one there. The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 3, 1945) notes: "There was a church at Grafton in 1086. Both the rectory and the advowson were acquired by the Hospitallers, their earliest recorded presentation being in 1277. [...] The parish church [...] was entirely rebuilt in 1875". English Heritage [Listing NGR: SP1235854862] (2000) reports: "Church. 1875. By F Preedy, for JW Carlisle. [...] font has clustered shafts and trefoil-headed arcade." The present font is from the 1875 re-building by Frederick Preedy, the one noted in English Heritage [cf. supra]. We have no information on the font of the original church here.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.188604, -1.818572
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 11′ 18.97″ N, 1° 49′ 6.86″ W
UTM: 30U 580763 5782673
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2014-11-21 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.