Billingsley / Biligesleage
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary Church, Billingsley, Shropshire. A small Parish Church tucked away down a dead end lane. A wonderfully preserved Norman Blocked Doorway near the Southern entrance porch and a couple of wonderful old Yew Trees sit near the porch as well."
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 September 2017 by paul wood [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5708508] [accessed 4 October 2018]
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view of font
Scene Description: the Norman basin on a modern stem; the lower base may be medieval
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © CRSBI, 2018
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 2000 by Barbara Zeitler [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/5348/] [accessed 4 October 2018]
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view of font and cover in context - west view
Scene Description: the altered font at the west end of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © F Brown, [1996?]
Image Source: digital image of a 1996 (?) B&W photograph [PH/B/15/6 / XPH/B/15/6] by F Brown, in Discovering Shropshire's History [http://search.shropshirehistory.org.uk/collections/getrecord/CCA_XPH_B_15_6/] [accessed 4 October 2018]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06996BIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Shropshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the B4363, 10 km S of Bridgnorth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Date: ca. 1140?
Century and Period: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Church Notes: original church ca. 1140;
Font Notes:
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No individual entry found for Billingsley in the Domesday survey. Cox & Harvey (1907) report a baptismal font of the Norman period in this church. Noted in Newman & Pevsner (2006): "Font. Norman, simple, circular." The entry for this church in Historic England [English Heritage Legacy ID: 254337] notes: "The c. C12 font has a large plain bowl with a square section moulding above the later stem." The entry for this church in the CRSBI (2018) notes: "Tub-shape with squat bowl. The stem is modern but the base could be medieval. There are chisel marks on the surface of the round inner bowl."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 2° 26' 12" W, -2.4369
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 27' 56" N, 52.4656
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 13.75 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 59 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 86.5 cm*
Basin Total Height: 29 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2018)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat; appears modern
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006