Weobley / Wibelai

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by Fabian Musto [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5804795] [accessed 26 September 2018]

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a photograph taken 11 August 1998 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3328222] [accessed 26 September 2018]

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design element - patterns - tracery - window tracery

Scene Description: assorted patterns

Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a photograph taken 11 August 1998 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3328222] [accessed 26 September 2018]

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view of basin and cover

Scene Description: Note the original (?) lock and chain still in place, so the photograph must be pre-1930

Image Source: digital image of a pre-1930 (?) B&W photograph provided by Peter Fairweather [original source not recorded]

Copyright Instructions: PD [assumed]

view of church exterior - south porch and portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Peter and St Paul, Weobley. The South porch of the 14th century shelters a Late Norman doorway."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 September 2014 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4165861] [accessed 26 September 2018]

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 January 2016 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4793559] [accessed 26 September 2018]

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view of church exterior - west portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by Fabian Musto [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5804762] [accessed 26 September 2018]

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view of church interior - chancel and east end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 May 2008 by David M Jone [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/872981] [accessed 26 September 2018]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: taken from the chancel, through the screen, toards the west end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 January 2016 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4795909] [accessed 26 September 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 September 2014 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4165656] [accessed 26 September 2018]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. III: pl. 58)

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view of font and cover - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2018 by Fabian Musto [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5804795] [accessed 26 September 2018]

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view of font and cover - west side

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 11 August 1998 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3328222] [accessed 26 September 2018]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05831WEO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul

Church Location: Church Rd, Weobley, Hereford HR4 8SD, UK -- Tel.: +44 1544 318415

Country Name: England

Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the B4230, E of the A4112, about 15 km WSW of Leominster, 15 km NW of Hereford

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford

Historical Region: Hundred of Stretford

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Peter Fairweather, of Lincoln, England, for the old photograph of the font and cover, which shows details of the old lock.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is entry for Weobley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SO4051/weobley/] [accessed 26 September 2018]; it mentions a priest, but not a church, in it, though there must have been one there. Tyrrell-Green (1928) lists a font here as one of group of 14th-century fonts in the Decorated style ornamented with varied patterns of blind tracery (in this group are: Offley in Herts.; Weobley in Hereford; Goadby Marwood and Noseley in Leics.; Barrowby, Carlton Scroope and Haydor in Lincs.; Northampton St. Peter's; Kiddington, Bloxham and Woodstock in Oxon.;Brailes in Warwick, and Patrington in Yorkshire). Described and illustrated in the inventory of Herefordshire (1931-1934): "Font[...]: octagonal bowl with a panel of window-tracery in each face, moulded under-side, plain stem and moulded base, early 14th-century. Font cover, with moulded edge and long straight handle, late 17th or early 18th-century." The flat wooden font cover retains the padlock and chain, the survival of which is recorded in Marshall (1959).

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.159, -2.87

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 9′ 32.4″ N, 2° 52′ 12″ W

UTM: 30U 508893 5778731

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: three?

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round?

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th-18th century

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: note the original padlock and chain still on it

REFERENCES

Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962

Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1931-1934

Marshall, George, "Fonts in Herefordshire", 1(1949); 2(1950); 3(1951), Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club, 1949-1951

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928