Ullenhall / Holehale

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view of church exterior - east view
Scene Description: Source caption: St Mary's church, Ullenhall dates from the 19th century."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Halling, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 June 2010 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1916211] [accessed 28 November 2014]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: the renovated old chapel in 2010
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2010 by Argrogan [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ullenhall_Old_Chapel_(9).JPG] [accessed 28 November 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Released by its author into the public domain
INFORMATION
FontID: 07292ULL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Old Church of St. Mary the Virgin [formerly Chapel of the Blessed Virgin]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Chapel Lane, Ullenhall, Warwickshire B95 5RT
Country Name: England
Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located just N of the A4189, 3 km w of Henley-in-Arden, 6-7 km E of Redditch
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Coventry
Historical Region: Hundred of Ferncombe [in Domesday times] -- Hundred of Barlichway
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Medieval
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Ullenhall [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP1267/ullenhall/] [accessed 28 November 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Notices of the churches of Warwickshire (vol. 1, 1847) informs: "The interior of the Chapel is anything but attractive [...] The font is standing in the 'ancient usual place' at the west end of the Church and near to the south door. It consists of a plain octagonal-faced basin, resting on a shaft of the same form, the underside of the basin being moulded with a bold cavetto. The exterior diameter of the basin is 2 feet 9 inches, the interior 2 feet 1 inch; the depth of the basin, which is leaded, internally 11 inches, externally 14 inches. The total height of the font is 3 feet 8 inches. Upon it stands a plain font cover of the seventeenth century." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period. The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 3, 1945) notes: "The old church of ST. MARY consists of a chancel only,[...] is of late-13th-century date. The nave was pulled down in 1875–6. [...] The font, of the 15th century, has an octagonal bowl with a moulded lower edge, and a plain stem. In the bowl one of the two staples remains. [...] About 5/8 mile south-south-west is the modern parish church of ST. MARY, erected in 1875".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.305823, -1.809147
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 18′ 20.96″ N, 1° 48′ 32.93″ W
UTM: 30U 581193 5795721
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
Rim Thickness: 10 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 62.5 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 82.5 cm*
Basin Depth: 27.5 cm*
Basin Total Height: 35 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 110 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * in ft/in in Notices of the churches of Warwickshire (vol. 1, 1847)
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2014-11-28 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Warwickshire Natural History and Archaeological Society. Architectural Committee, Notices of the churches of Warwickshire, Rivington, London; [etc.]: Henry T. Cooke, 1847-