Newland nr. Worcester

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Scene Description: described in another source as stars -- the restored font; originally from the disappeared Church of St. Thomas, Gt. Malvern

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2018 by Colin Smith

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view of base

Scene Description: the restored font; originally from the disappeared Church of St. Thomas, Gt. Malvern

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2018 by Colin Smith

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view of church exterior - north view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Leonard's Church, Newland. Completed along with the almshouses of the Beauchamp Community in 1864. The ancient wooden chapel that had been used until then was dismantled and some of it was incorporated into the construction of a mortuary chapel."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2009 by Bob Embleton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1386881] [accessed 15 October 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: "A portion of the timber framing of the old church has been erected between the chancel and the warden's lodge" (VCH, Worcester, vol,. 4: 123-134) -- it is attached to the re-built church, by the almshouses, and used as mortuary chapel.

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2009 by Bob Embleton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1386918] [accessed 15 October 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2018 by Colin Smith

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font and cover are visible at the west end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2009 by Bob Embleton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1387030] [accessed 15 October 2014]

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view of font

Scene Description: the restored font; originally from the disappeared Church of St. Thomas, Gt. Malvern

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2018 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 29 April 2019)

view of font and cover

Scene Description: the restored font; originally from the disappeared Church of St. Thomas, Gt. Malvern

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2018 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 29 April 2019)

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2018 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 10 May 2019)

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the restored font; originally from the disappeared Church of St. Thomas, Gt. Malvern

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2018 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 29 April 2019)

view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2018 by Colin Smith

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view of font cover - finial

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2018 by Colin Smith

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06329NEW

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Leonard [originally from the parish church of St. Thomas, Great Malvern]

Church Patron Saints: St. Leonard

Church Location: The Avenue, Newland, Worcestershire WR13 5AX

Country Name: England

Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Newland is located on the A449, just N of Great Malvern, about 10 km SSW of Worcester

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester

Historical Region: Hndred of Pershore

Font Location in Church: inside the new church at Newland

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [basin only], Medieval / composite

Church Notes: web site with good selection of images from the interior of this church at www.stleonardsnewland.org/architecture-and-design.html [accessed 31 May 2012]

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No entry for this Neland found in the Domesday survey. Noake (1868) reports "a gorgeous church" built in the mid-19th century, and "the only relic transferred to the new church is a small circular Norman font, which is said to have belonged to the parish of Malvern before the Reformation". Miller (1890) writes: "This was a chapelry of Great Malvern. The old church, a timbered building of considerable interest, was taken down in 1864, when the new church and almshouses were built, John, the third Earl Beauchamp, having left £60,000 for the purpose". The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 4, 1924) entry for Great Malvern with Newland writes: "The original parish church of Gt. Malvern], built some time before 1269, [...] was dedicated to the honour of St. Thomas the Martyr [...] and stood at the north-west corner of the present churchyard [...] About 1541 [...] St. Thomas's Church was [...] destroyed, its goods removed and its font taken to the chapel at Newland, [...] where it is still preserved. [...] The font has a circular bowl, probably of the 13th century, and modern stem." On the original church at Newland, the VCH (ibid.) notes: "The old church of ST. LEONARD at Newland was an interesting timber and plaster building [...] The building belonged probably to the 15th century, though locally an earlier date is claimed for it. [...] When the trustees of the Beauchamp charity purchased the advowson of Newland they were required to repair or rebuild the parish church at the expense of the charity. They accordingly pulled down the old building in 1864 and erected a new church on a different site, adjoining the almshouses. The site of the altar of the old church is now marked by a stone cross erected in 1866, and the graveyard is still used". Tyrrell-Green (1928) reports a font at Newland that had been cast out of the church but later recovered and restored to its original use. Brooks & Pevsner (2007) note the basin "c. 1200" and a "marble base by Hardwick" [i.e., Philip Charles Hardwick, architect responsible for the 1860s renovation of the church]. Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2014) as a Romanesque baptismal font, "cylindrical, of red sandstone, with a band of chip-carved stars at the rim. Set on a modern stem and base". The CRSBI [ibid.) informs that "The VCH dates the font to the 12thc. Pevsner (1968) describes it Early English, and the band of ornament as 'dog-tooth;'. The font belonged to the original parish church of Great Malvern, St Thomas's, and was brought to Newland in 1541 when Great Malvern Priory became the parish church." Noake (1848) visiting Great Malvern in the mid-19th century, reported a font dated to a recent renovation of its church. [NB: we have no information on the original font of the pre-1269 church here]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.1343, -2.2995

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 8′ 3.48″ N, 2° 17′ 58.2″ W

UTM: 30U 547932 5776218

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (red) [basin only]

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 7.5 cm [calculated]

Diameter (inside rim): 45 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 60 cm*

Basin Depth: 31 cm*

Basin Total Height: 42 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2014)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood and metal,

Apparatus: no

Notes: round wooden lid with metal scrollwork atop; dove finial

REFERENCES

The Victoria History of the Counties of England: Worcestershire, London: Victoria County History, 1924

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-05-20 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Brooks, Alan, Worcestershire, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2007

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2004-06-25 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.

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

Noake, John, The rambler in Worcestershire, or, Stray notes on churches and congregations, Worcester: Published and sold by all booksellers, 1848

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Worcestershire, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968

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