Eastham nr. Tenbury Wells / Estham
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view of church exterior - south portal
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view of church exterior - north view
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sally Parishmouse, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 June 2005 by sally_parishmouse [http://www.flickr.com/photos/89713067@N00/199897578] [accessed 25 May 2010]
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design element - motifs - flat moulding
Scene Description: the base is modern
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sally Parishmouse, 2005
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 10 November 1992 [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/1176/] [accessed 23 October 2014]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 07012EAS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Address: Eastham, Worcestershire WR15 8NW
Site Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 6 km NE of Tenbury Wells
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester [formerly in the Diocese of Hereford]
Historical Region: Hundred of Doddingtree
Additional Comments: altered font: modern base
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Eastham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO6568/eastham/] [accessed 23 October 2014]; it reports a priest in it, but mentions no church, though there probably was one here. Miller (1890) notes the restored church but mentions no font in it. The font here is noted in Tymms (1834). Noake (1868) notes: "The chancel arch and font, being specimens of some of the best Norman work in the country, were recklessly destroyed in the present century." The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 4, 1924) notes: "There was a priest, and therefore probably a church, at Eastham in 1086 [...] The nave and western portion of the chancel [of the present church] were built during the first half of the 12th century. [...] The font is of sandstone and has a plain circular 12th-century bowl of cuplike form with a wide fillet near the upper edge and a cable moulding at the bottom; the circular shaft with square blocks at the foot is modern." English Heritage [Listing NGR: SO6569368731] (1966) reports: "Font: C12, large sandstone circular example with wide fillet near upper edge and cable mould at junction of base and stem." Bridges (2000), however, reports a large cauldron-type basin of the Norman period ornamented with rope-moulding motif, now mounted on a 19th-century base. [ref. cited in: www.t-v-s.org.uk]. In Brooks & Pevsner (2007). Noted and illustrated in the CRSBI (2014): "Plain cauldron-shaped bowl, with a fillet at the rim and a cable moulding at the foot. Modern stem."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 533474 5796022
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.31351, -2.508964
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 18′ 48.64″ N, 2° 30′ 32.27″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 12.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 66 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 91 cm*
Basin Total Height: 45 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2014)
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Bridges, Tim, Churches of Worcestershire, Logaston, Herefordshire: Logaston Press, 2000, [?]
- Brooks, Alan, Worcestershire, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 276
- 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. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Tymms, Samuel, Family Topographer, being a compendious account of the antient and present state of the counties of England: vol. IV, Oxford circuit, London: Nichols & Son, 1834, p. 270