Bishampton / Bihampton / Bisantone / Bisantune / Bissehamton / Byshampton

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B01: design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 8-petal - in a circle

Scene Description: too neat to be original; probably much re-tooled

Image Source: B&W photograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/984/] [accessed 23 September 2014]

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BBL01: design element - motifs - braid - 2-strand

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BBU01: symbol - varied

Scene Description: stars, crosses, etc., too neat to be original; probably much re-tooled

Image Source: B&W photograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/984/] [accessed 23 September 2014]

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BBU02: symbol

Scene Description: these two appear the least worked over

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: Source caption: "Originally built in Norman times the first recorded Vicar of Bishampton was Thomas de Pippard and full list of vicars from that time exists in the Church. The church was once a chapelry of Fladbury and at that time was dedicated to St. Peter. However, during rebuilding in 1870 the figure carved for the pulpit proved to be St James and not St. Peter. It proved easier to rededicate the Church to St James than to remake the pulpit! "

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 May 2005 by Richard Dunn [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/10159] [accessed 23 September 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the font in the foreground, at the west end

Image Source: digital photograph taken August 2014 by Tim Lewis [http://churchtramp.blogspot.ca/2014/08/bishampton-st-james-worcestershire.html] [accessed 23 September 2014]

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view of font

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: in the space beneath the tower

Image Source: digital photograph taken August 2014 by Tim Lewis [http://churchtramp.blogspot.ca/2014/08/bishampton-st-james-worcestershire.html] [accessed 23 September 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07335BIS

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James [originally St. Peter's]

Church Patron Saints: St. James [NB: original dedication was St. Peter]

Church Location: Church Lane, Bishampton, Worcestershire WR10 2LT

Country Name: England

Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located 15 km ESE of Worcester

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester

Historical Region: Hundred of Oswaldslow

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, beneath the tower

Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Late Norman

Cognate Fonts: Other fonts with similar decoration at Bricklehampton and South Littleton, also in Worcestershire

Church Notes: formerly a chapel-of-ease to Fladbuty -- original dedication was St. Peter but. after 19th-century renovations, when the wrong saint was carved on the pulpit by mistake, the advocation was changed to match the new addition.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Bishampton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO9851/bishampton/] [accessed 23 September 2014]; it reports a priest and church lands in it. Noake (1868) reports a Norman font in this church. Miller (1890) notes that the Church of St. Peter was a chapelry of Fladbury, with a vicarage ordained in 1325, and that the church of St. James', which was rebuilt in 1870, has a Norman font in it. Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period, ornamented with "cable and other characteristic mouldings". The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 3, 1913) notes: "There was a priest and possibly a church at Bishampton in 1086. [...] Bishampton appears at one time to have been a chapelry of Fladbury. [...] The church [...] appears to preserve the plan of a 12th-century building, to which a western tower was added c. 1400. The nave and chancel were, however, completely rebuilt in 1870, the stonework of the doors and windows being reused where possible. [...] The circular bowl to the font is of the late 12th century, with roses, crosses and stars forming a band round the edge; the stem is modern." English Heritage [Listing NGR: SO9899351840] (1965) reports a "Late C12 font" in this church. In Pevsner (1968): "Font. Of cauldron shape; late C12." Brooks & Pevsner (2007) add details of the decorative motifs: "Decoration of crosses, rosettes, and six-pointed stars; rope moulding below(cf. Bricklehampton). Described as a Norman font located in the west end of the nave, beneath the tower in the Bishampton entry, 'Recent grants' report of the Grants Committee meetings (9 March 2004 and 22 June 2004) of the Historic Churches Preservation Trust [source: www.historicchurches.org.uk]. Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2014), where the stem of the base is identified as original, but the "double-roll base, the lower roll carved with cable [...] might no be original"; this same source points out that there are other "less complicated fonts with similar decoration at Bricklehampton and South Littleton, Worcestershire." As this source indicates, and a look at the object corroborates, this font has been drastically re-tooled.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.164918, -2.016329

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 9′ 53.71″ N, 2° 0′ 58.78″ W

UTM: 30U 567280 5779837

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: three?

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Notes on Measurements: [no measurements given in CRSBI]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th cemtury?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: flat and round, with metal decoration; Victorian?

REFERENCES

The Victoria History of the Counties of England: Worcestershire, London: Victoria County History, 1924

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2014-09-23 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Brooks, Alan, Worcestershire, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2007

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. Accessed: 2004-07-22 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Miller, George [Revd.], The Parishes of the Diocese of Worcester, Birmingham: Hall & English, 1890

Noake, John, Noake's Guide to Worcestershire: the complete text, London; Worcester: Longman and Co.; J. Noake, 1868

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Worcestershire, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968