Handsworth in Birmingham / Honesworde

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: 1865 engraving of Handsworth Church (before the 1876 restoration)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving in Samuel Smiles' Lives of the Engineers Boulton & Watt (1865) -- Grace's Guide [www.gracesguide.co.uk]
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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: original church pre-1200; present church is 1878 re-building
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tanya Dedyukhina, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 Jujne 2011 by Tanya Dedyukhina [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary's_church_-_panoramio.jpg] [accessed 9 November 2018]
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view of church interior - immersion baptism in progress

Scene Description: the portable (?) immersion font was placed by the side of the regular modern stone font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Ecclesiastical Parish of Handsworth, St Mary, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph in The Ecclesiastical Parish of Handsworth, St Mary [http://handsworthstmary.org/image-gallery/] [accessed 9 November 2018]
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view of church interior - immersion baptism in progress

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Ecclesiastical Parish of Handsworth, St Mary, 2018
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view of church interior - immersion baptism in progress

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Ecclesiastical Parish of Handsworth, St Mary, 2018
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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Ecclesiastical Parish of Handsworth, St Mary, 2018
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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Ecclesiastical Parish of Handsworth, St Mary, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph in The Ecclesiastical Parish of Handsworth, St Mary [http://handsworthstmary.org/image-gallery/] [accessed 9 November 2018]
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view of font in context

Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Ecclesiastical Parish of Handsworth, St Mary, 2018
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INFORMATION

FontID: 07192HAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: 283 Hamstead Road, Handsworth, West Midlands, B20 2RW
Country Name: England
Location: Staffordshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A41, by Handsworth Park, in NW Birmingham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Birmingham
Historical Region: Hundred of Offlow [in Domesday] -- formerly Staffordshire and Warwickshire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: Medieval
Font Notes:
There is an entry for this Handsworth [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP0590/handsworth/] [accessed 25 February 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period in this church. The Victoria County History (Warwickshire, vol. 7, 1959) notes: "The church of ST. MARY, Handsworth, was in existence by 1200 when a priest serving the church of Handsworth is mentioned, [...] In 1200 the priest serving the church was said to have been appointed by the Hospitallers [...] and in 1228 there was a rector, who presented a vicar [...] The font has a 3 ft. octagonal bowl that may be ancient; it has grooves at both top and bottom edges." Noted in William Dargue [http://ahistoryofbirminghamchurches.jimdo.com/handsworth-st-mary/] [accessed 25 February 2015]: "The font may also be medieval. The octagonal bowl measures almost a metre across and has grooves at both top and bottom edges. At the restoration of the church in 1878 was described by The Handsworth Herald as being used for a farmyard trough." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SP0557190308] notes of this church: "Of C12-early C13 origin but much enlarged and rebuilt completely in the C19", but mentions no font in it. [NB: we have no information on the font of the 12th-century church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.510556, -1.919167
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 30′ 38″ N, 1° 55′ 9″ W
UTM: 30U 573352 5818375

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Diameter (includes rim): 90-100 cm [approx.]*
Notes on Measurements: * cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2015-02-25 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907