Badsey No. 1 / Baddesly / Badesei

INFORMATION

FontID: 05085BAD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Formerly at the Parish Church of St. James, the font was moved to Lord Sandy's house in Ombersley
Church Patron Saints: St. James
Church Location: 34 High Street, Badsey, Worcestershire, WR11 7JZ
Country Name: England
Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Badsey is located about 3 kms E of Evesham, 50 kms S of Birmingham. Ombersley is located 10 km N of Worcester up the A449
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester
Historical Region: Hundred of Fishborough [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: no longer in the church [cf. FontNotes]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: wooden font
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Badsey [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP0743/badsey/] [accessed 4 November 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Miller (1890) reports a Norman north doorway here, and the remains of a stoup by the side of the century later south door. Described in Bond (1908): "an old wooden font, formerly in Badsey Church, Worcester, is in the vestibule of Lord Sandy's house at Ombersley." [ca. 1908? - this location not confirmed since -- there is no mention of the font in Brooks & Pevsner (2007) description of Ombersley Court]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.086027, -1.896774
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 5′ 9.7″ N, 1° 53′ 48.38″ W
UTM: 30U 575591 5771181

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: wood

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Brooks, Alan, Worcestershire, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2007
Miller, George [Revd.], The Parishes of the Diocese of Worcester, Birmingham: Hall & English, 1890