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Re: Bredwardine Church by Anne T on Tuesday, 27 July 2021

For more information: The church is recorded as Historic England List ID 1099515 and on the Herefordshire HER as SMR 1555.

The churchyard cross is recorded as Historic England List ID 1348905 and on the Herefordshire HER as SMR 1554.

No church guide was available at the time of our visit, but a short information display tells us: "It (the church) is clearly very old and the fact that it is built on a circular mound on top of a hill suggests that this has been a site for worship and burial since before the Christian era. It is likely that there was a Christian place of worship here from soon after Christianity reached these Islands. It is also likely that this was a 'Celtic' or 'British' foundation and not part of the 'Roman' church .... such an early Church would have been of timber construction and that therefore no visible remains can be seen today. There are a number of features indicating the nave is largey of Norman construction ..... Recently an expert has pointed out that some of the stonework, particularly at the corners, has been laid with its grain in the vertical plane rather than horizontally. In his opinion, this indicates a pre-Norman date."

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