Longdon nr. Tewksbury / Langandune / Langdon / Langedune / Longandune / Longedun / Longedune

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 April 2005 by Bob Embleton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4965] [accessed 31 August 2013]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2005 by sally_parishmouse [http://www.flickr.com/photos/89713067@N00/261019281] [accessed 1 June 2010]

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 05463LON

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century [base only?], Medieval / composite

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin

Church Address: Gloucester Road, Longdon, Worcestershire, GL20 6AT

Site Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located on the B4211, near Tewkesbury, about 25 km N of Gloucester on the B4211, N of the M50

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester

Historical Region: Hundred of Oswaldslow [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Pershore

Additional Comments: altered font? (the medieval base now supports a modern basin) -- recycled font the old wooden font was used ca. 1908 as a bookstand (cf. Bond]

Font Notes: Click to view

There is an entry for this Longdon [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP2241/longdon/] [accessed 14 October 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Noake (1868), who described Longdon Church as "a very sad affair", reports "an Early Norman font" in it. Bond (1908) mentions a wooden font once in use at Longdon church, but "now does duty as a bookstand, and carries an old Bible and Jewell's Apology." Miller (1890) writes: "The church has been rebuilt, but the tower is of the 15th century. The font is modern, but the basement is old, with four columns." Miller (ibid.) notes also a church dedicated to St. John the Baptist here, with a 13th-century font in it. The wooden font is also mentioned In Andrews (1912), probably after Bond. The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 4, 1924) notes: "The font consists of a modern bowl, standing on a pedestal of 12th-century date, composed of four short shafts with scalloped capitals and moulded bases. The upper part of the Saxon font at Deerhurst was in Longdon Church from 1845 to 1870. It was restored to Deerhurst in the latter year, when the lower part of the font was recovered. An 18th-century wooden font has been transformed into a bookstand, [...] on which are kept a copy of Jewell's works published by John Norton in 1611 and a black-letter Bible." Brooks & Pevsner (2007) mention only a neo-Norman font of 1870 [though it is not clear whether the base is still the same one reported in the VCH].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 552013 5764275

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.026665, -2.241895

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 1′ 35.99″ N, 2° 14′ 30.82″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: square, mounted

Basin Exterior Shape: square

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; appears modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Andrews, Francis Baugh, Memorials of Old Worcestershire, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1912, p. 107
Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 77
Brooks, Alan, Worcestershire, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 436
Miller, George [Revd.], The Parishes of the Diocese of Worcester, Birmingham: Hall & English, 1890, vol. 2: 292-293
Noake, John, Noake's Guide to Worcestershire: the complete text, London; Worcester: Longman and Co.; J. Noake, 1868, p. 259