South Littleton / Litelton / Liteltune
Results: 5 records
design element - motifs - arrow-head
Scene Description: a band
design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 3
design element - motifs - rope moulding
symbol - cross
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Halling, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2010 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1985519] [accessed 5 November 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 07348LIT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael [formerly St. Mary and St. Nicholas?]
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael [formerly dedicated to St. Mary & St. Nicholas?]
Church Location: Church Lane, South Littleton, Worcestershire WR11 8TU
Country Name: England
Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on the B4085, 3-4 km NE of Evesham, midway between Evesham and Bidford on Avon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester
Historical Region: Hundred of Fishborough [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Blackenhurst
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: the fonts at Bricklehampton and Bishampton [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for [North, Middle, and South] Littleton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/XX0000/north-middle-and-south-littleton/] [accessed 5 November 2014], one of which reports a church in it. Miller (1890) writes; "The church at South Littleton is dedicated to St. Michael. In the old records it is dedicated to St. Mary and St. Nicholas. [...] The font is Norman." The font here is noted in Noake (1854): "Norman font, thickly encrusted in various paintings and washings; it is circular and has the cable moulding top and bottom". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. In Pevsner (1968): "Norman, round, with tapering sides. A band of arrow heads, and a rope band. Also three rosettes and a cross." Noted in the CRSBI (2014) entry for Bishampton as one of two "less complicated fonts with similar decoration at Bricklehampton and South Littleton, Worcestershire". Described in Brooks & Pevsner (2007).
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.114072, -1.89043
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 6′ 50.66″ N, 1° 53′ 25.55″ W
UTM: 30U 575978 5774306
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
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: 2008-06-24 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Noake, John, Noake's Guide to Worcestershire: the complete text, London; Worcester: Longman and Co.; J. Noake, 1868
Noake, John, The rambler in Worcestershire, or, Stray notes on churches and congregations, Worcester: Published and sold by all booksellers, 1848
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Worcestershire, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968