More information : (ST 58497138) Church (NAT). (1) The Church of St John the Baptist at Bedminster, rebuilt in 1854 on the site of an earlier church, allegedly Saxon, was gutted in the Second World War. Among the remains are lancets and Decorated tracery. The west tower has set-back buttresses and battlements. (2-3) Bedminster - "Preserved in the Pigot collection is a sketch ... of a fine 15th cent. cross that formerly stood opposite the south porch of the church. It has since been demolished, and when I last visited the spot the fragments were lying in the grass about the churchyard". (4) (ST 58507139) Grave Yard (NAT) The churchyard of the former St John's Church is almost certainly the site of the Saxon minster of Bedminster, though the earliest portions of the exposed foundations probably date only to the late medieval period. In the Middle Ages the church was the centre of a very large and very rich parish, which included Redcliffe, St. Mary Redcliffe (see ST 57 SE 1) remaining a chapel of ease to St John's until the 1830s. A comprehensive survey and record is being made of the exposed foundations and tomb slabs before it is secularised. (5)
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