Wyre Piddle
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Image Source: B&W photograph in Tyrrell-Green (1928: fig. 55)
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design element - motifs - chevron - nested chevrons - horizontal band
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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
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Image Source: B&W photograph in Tyrrell-Green (1928: fig. 55)
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view of church exterior in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Halling, 2013
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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design element - motifs - zigzag
Scene Description: a band all around the upper side of the stem of the base
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Image Source: B&W photograph in Tyrrell-Green (1928: fig. 55)
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Scene Description: the font in 2009
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aidan McRae Thomson, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2009 by Aidan McRae Thomson; in FLICKR
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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?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aidan McRae Thomson, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 30 May 2009 by Aidan McRae Thomson; in FLICKR
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05876WYR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?), Norman
Cognate Fonts: similar to the font at Abberton
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Anne
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Anne
Church Address: Church Ln, Wyre Piddle, Pershore WR10 2JD, UK
Site Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A4538, 2 km NNE of Pershore, 15 km ESE of Worcester (dir. Evesham)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester
Additional Comments: copy of font / replica: both the original and the copy are in this church [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 30U 564538 5775203
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.12359, -2.0573
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 7′ 24.92″ N, 2° 3′ 26.28″ W
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, p. 227
- Kroesen, Justin E.A., The Interior of the medieval village church = Het middeleeuwse Dorpskerkinterieur, Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters, 2004, p. 328
- Noake, John, Noake's Guide to Worcestershire: the complete text, London; Worcester: Longman and Co.; J. Noake, 1868, p. 166
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 79, 80 and fig. 55