Stolen & never recovered - Dorstone Herefordshire
Under an arch are pieces of a tomb www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/2s14Fm found during the church rebuilding in 1826, thought to be that of Johannes de Brito. It was under the south wall, 6 feet by 3 feet, 2 feet below the surface of the church floor. In it were the bones of a tall man, nearly perfect, laid in a concreted cavity with a stone cover. Near the head was a small ancient pewter chalice with paten, and fragments of silver thread, commonly buried with ecclesiastics at that time.
The chalice and paten remained in the church until 2005 when it was stolen and never recovered.
Parts of a stone are inscribed with Lombardic script
JOHS. BR………..LAM: IN: HON ORE: BEA MARI SR’E: M:CC:LVI (‘This chapel is dedicated to the Virgin Mary as promised by John de Brito in 1256.’)
He was possibly from a local family as a 13c Bishop of Hereford, John le Breton, (de Brito) was born in Abbeydore, where his heart burial stone is still in situ and the monks of the Cistercian abbey were granted rights of way to their lands on Dorstone Hill). - Church of St Faith, Dorstone Herefordshire.
Stolen & never recovered - Dorstone Herefordshire
Under an arch are pieces of a tomb www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/2s14Fm found during the church rebuilding in 1826, thought to be that of Johannes de Brito. It was under the south wall, 6 feet by 3 feet, 2 feet below the surface of the church floor. In it were the bones of a tall man, nearly perfect, laid in a concreted cavity with a stone cover. Near the head was a small ancient pewter chalice with paten, and fragments of silver thread, commonly buried with ecclesiastics at that time.
The chalice and paten remained in the church until 2005 when it was stolen and never recovered.
Parts of a stone are inscribed with Lombardic script
JOHS. BR………..LAM: IN: HON ORE: BEA MARI SR’E: M:CC:LVI (‘This chapel is dedicated to the Virgin Mary as promised by John de Brito in 1256.’)
He was possibly from a local family as a 13c Bishop of Hereford, John le Breton, (de Brito) was born in Abbeydore, where his heart burial stone is still in situ and the monks of the Cistercian abbey were granted rights of way to their lands on Dorstone Hill). - Church of St Faith, Dorstone Herefordshire.