Westbury-on-Trym / Huesberie / Westburi
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view of church exterior - west view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Holy Trinity parish church, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol, England, seen from the west".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Robert Cutts, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2008 by Robert Cutts [www.flickr.com/photos/21678559@N06/4417611357] [accessed 11 February 2019]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 21977WES
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Date: ca. 1194?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?), Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Trinity
Church Notes: original churches 8thC [first ca. 716; second ca. 796]; 10thC [ca. 963-964] Benedictine priory founded; collegiate church in 1194 became present church with nave and aisles of 13thC, the rest Perpendicular
Church Address: Church Rd, Westbury on Trym, Bristol BS9 3EQ, UK -- Tel.: (0117) 950 8644
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A4162, NNW of Bristol
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bristol
Historical Region: Hundred of Bentry
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 1194 church here -- the one(s) from the earlier church(es) probably destroyed in the Norman raids
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Westbury [-on-Trym] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/ST5777/westbury-on-trym/] [accessed 11 February 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 2, 1907) notes: "It has been surmised that a monastery was founded at Westbury-on-Trym about 716. [...] It was most probably a place of residence for a number of priests who lived their life in common, but were not under monastic vows. In 824 the cathedral church of Worcester obtained possession of the church and lands of Westbury. [...] Nothing is known of the fate of the minster during the Danish invasions, but it is unlikely that it escaped being plundered and burnt. [...] Wulfstan, bishop of Worcester, [...] recovered the church from William the Conqueror, rebuilt it, and making it dependent on the cathedral monastery of Worcester". The entry for this church in Histortic England [Listing NGR: ST5733577403] notes: "A collegiate church from 1194, early C13 nave and aisles, C15 chancel, chapels and tower. [...] C19 font, octagonal on marble shafts".
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 525730 5704416
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.4903, -2.6294
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 29′ 25.08″ N, 2° 37′ 45.84″ W
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.