Wyre Piddle

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design element - motifs - chevron - nested chevrons - horizontal band

Image Source: B&W photograph in Tyrrell-Green (1928: fig. 55)

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design element - motifs - zigzag

Scene Description: a band all around the lower basin side

Image Source: B&W photograph in Tyrrell-Green (1928: fig. 55)

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design element - motifs - zigzag

Scene Description: a band all around the upper side of the stem of the base

Image Source: B&W photograph in Tyrrell-Green (1928: fig. 55)

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view of basin

Scene Description: the font in 2009; notice the re-tooled surfaces on the basin; also white-washed? or is this the replica basin held also in this church?

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 30 May 2009 by Aidan McRae Thomson; in FLICKR

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view of church exterior in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 March 2013 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3376470] [accessed 10 February 2020]

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view of font

Image Source: B&W photograph in Tyrrell-Green (1928: fig. 55)

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the font in 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2009 by Aidan McRae Thomson; in FLICKR

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05876WYR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Anne

Church Patron Saints: St. Anne

Church Location: Church Ln, Wyre Piddle, Pershore WR10 2JD, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off the A4538, 2 km NNE of Pershore, 15 km ESE of Worcester (dir. Evesham)

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester

Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Norman

Cognate Fonts: similar to the font at Abberton

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

No individual entry found for Wyre Piddle in the Domesday survey. Noake (1868) reports a baptismal font as old as the church itself. Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period "ornamented with chevron work round the rim and at the base". Described and illustrated in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a cylindrical mounted baptismal font; the basin has a band of continuous nestred chevron all around the upper rim; a prominent band of zig-zag motif runs around the lower basin side, just above the curve of the underbowl; another, a little less prominent, just below the underbowl, on the stem of the base; at the lower end of this stem there is roll moulding. Noted in Pevsner (1968). Brooks & Pevsner (2007) report: "The bowl is a replica of 1986; the original, lying in the sanctuary, resembles that of Abberton [...] Norman, drum-shaped". The entry for this church in British Listed Buildings [https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101273334-church-of-st-anne-wyre-piddle#.XkGrWEd7lrQ] [accessed 10 February 2020] notes: "The Norman font was renewed in 1986. The old font bowl, with arrow-head and chevron friezes, is in the sanctuary (and similar to the font at Abberton). Its replacement bowl rests on the original round base." A recent [30 May 2009] photograph of this font shows the surface of the basin appears to have been re-tooled between 1928 and the present; or is it the replica basin? [cf. supra]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.12359, -2.0573

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 7′ 24.92″ N, 2° 3′ 26.28″ W

UTM: 30U 564538 5775203

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Kroesen, Justin E.A., The Interior of the medieval village church = Het middeleeuwse Dorpskerkinterieur, Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters, 2004

Noake, John, Noake's Guide to Worcestershire: the complete text, London; Worcester: Longman and Co.; J. Noake, 1868

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