Cranford / Cranforde [Domesday] (Gt. London) [disappeared font?]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 22186CRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Dunstan
Church Patron Saints: St. Dunstan
Church Location: Cranford, Harlington, Hounslow TW5 9RZ, UK -- Tel.: +44 20 8897 8836
Country Name: England
Location: Greater London, South East
Directions to Site: Located off (SW) the Bath Rd crossroads with the Parkway, just E of Heathrow airport, 20 km W of Charing Cross, in the London Borough of Hounslow,
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of London
Historical Region: Hundred of Elthorne
Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Cranford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TQ1077/cranford/] [accessed 6 June 2019]; it reports a priest and "0,25 church lands" but not a church in it, though there must have been one there. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Middlesex, vol. 3, 1962) notes: "There was a priest at Cranford in 1086, when he held 1 virgate of land, [...] and presumably there was a church there also. The benefice is a rectory, and though the advowson was held by two religious orders, the Knights Templars and the Hospitallers, it was never appropriated. [...] When the lands of the Templars were confiscated in 1308 the advowson passed to the king, as he presented a parson in 1311. [...] it remained their property until the Dissolution, except when their Cranford manor was leased for a life. [...] The theory that the church was a chapel of the Templars dedicated to St. John the Baptist and only became a parish church in 1310 [...] with a presentation by the king does not appear to have any factual foundation. [...] The parish church of ST. DUNSTAN is very small and consists of a chancel, nave, vestry, and west tower. (fn. 48) The present chancel and tower, built of flint and rubble, date from the 15th century. [...] The marble font was given to the church in 1716, also by Lady Berkeley".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.49224, -0.4143
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 29′ 32.06″ N, 0° 24′ 51.48″ W
UTM: 30U 679497 5707737
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-06-06 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.