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Key Image St Eadburgha
Snowshill Road
WR12 7JS Broadway
United Kingdom
Denomination: Anglican
Geogr. Coordinates: 52.02462° N, 1.85994° W
Geo Location
Reference year: 1160
Architectural style: Gothic
Building type: Hall church
Description: Three-aisled, predominantly gothic hall church with transept and a central tower over the crossing
Name derivation: From St Eadburh, granddaughter of Alfred the Great
Pulpit
  • Travel pulpit (14th cent.)
Font
  • Font (Anglo-Saxon or early Norman)
Noteworthy
  • Alms box (12th cent.)
  • Charles I's coat of arms (1641)
  • Open ropes to ring the bells in the crossing
History:
1160:   Construction
About 1300:   Enlargement of the south transept
About 1400:   Renewal of the aisles
19th cent.:   (“Modern”) Renewal of the north transept
Important persons:
Patron:  Eadburh of Winchester (?–960, daughter of King Edward the Elder of England, nun at Winchester)
Sources
St Michael and All Angels: Informationsblatt und Informationstafel „St Eadburgha“, Broadway
Surman, Richard: Betjeman’s Best British Churches, Collins, London 2011
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