Clifford Chambers / Clifort

Image copyright © Aidan Simons, Arundel & Brighton Walking Pilgrimage, 2002

Image and permission received from the author [e-mail of Oct. 16, 2002]

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Bushell, 2005

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2005 by Dave Bushell [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/56311] [accessed 16 July 2012]

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view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aidan Simons, Arundel & Brighton Walking Pilgrimage, 2002

Image Source: photograph by Aidan Simons

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author [e-mail of Oct. 16, 2002]

INFORMATION

FontID: 06477CLI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Helen
Church Patron Saints: St. Helena
Church Location: 4 Rainsford Close, Clifford Chambers, Warwickshire CV37 8HX, UK -- Tel.: 01789 266316
Country Name: England
Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the B4632, 3 km SSW of Stratford-upon-Avon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Coventry [formerly in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol]
Historical Region: Hundred of Tewkesbury -- formerly in Gloucestershire [until 1931]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century [basin only] [re-cut] -- 19th century [base only], Medieval / composite
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Aidan Simons for his photograph of this font
There is an entry for Clifford [Chambers] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP1952/clifford-chambers/] [accessed 18 December 2018]; it reports a priest, a church and "1.0 church lands" in it. The Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 6, 1965) notes: "There was a priest at Clifford Chambers in 1086 [...] he church was rebuilt in the mid-12th century [...] heavily restored in 1886 [...] The font, with no pedestal, is thought to be of the 12th century, and to have been cut into a septagonal shape in the 15th century." The VCH entry is footnoted: "'Glos. fonts', Trans. B.G.A.S. xliv. 186." Heptagonal basin [cf. supra] in the shape of an upturned truncated pyramid, raised on a wider modern base. The basin is lined with lead and has a modern flat wooden lid. Described as Saxon. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SP1982652118] notes: "Church. Mid C12 nave with later windows and remains of C13 north transeptal chapel; late C14 west tower with C15 features; extensively restored c1886 by J Cotton of Birmingham [...] heptagonal font, possibly C12 with C15 re-cutting on C19 base, flat lid with brass finial".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.170422, -1.716294
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 10′ 13.52″ N, 1° 42′ 58.66″ W
UTM: 30U 588046 5780466

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: heptagonal [re-cut] (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: heptagonal [re-cut]
Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat; modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-07-16 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.