Throckmorton

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Throckmorton church. Largely thirteenth century [...] It is a chapelry of Fladbury."

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Image Source: digital photograph 16 October 2020 by Jonathan Thacker [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6625215] [accessed 18 March 2024]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Throckmorton parish church - interior. Looking towards the base of the central tower and chancel." -- showing the medieval font in the foreground, bottom-right corner

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jonathan Billinger, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph 30 October 2008 by Jonathan Billinger [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3306602] [accessed 18 March 2024]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07347THO
Church/Chapel: Throckmorton Parish Church
Church Location: Throckmorton, Pershore, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the A44, 8 km NE of Pershore, 8 km NW of Evesham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the SW area of the nave
Century and Period: 12th century, Medieval
No entry found for Throckmorton in the Domesday survey. Brooks & Pevsner (2007) note: "Small round font, of indeterminate date", and report the building as a chapelry of Fladbury, dating back to the late 13th- or early-14th century. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SO9812449841] notes: "Parish church. C13 chancel, south arcade and 2 lower stages of central tower. C14 north and south doorways. South aisle 1894. C15 belfry stage of tower, embattlements to pinnacles. C12 font."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.144, -2.02
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 8′ 38.4″ N, 2° 1′ 12″ W
UTM: 30U 567061 5777507

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead lined

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat; modern

REFERENCES

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