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design element - motifs - foliage - stiff-leaf

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view of church exterior - southwest view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font

Scene Description: the re-cut font -- is the chicken wire for protection? decoration?

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07350OLD
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Henley Rd., Oldberrow, Warwickshire B95 5NT
Country Name: England
Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on the A4189, 6 km E of Redditch
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Coventry
Historical Region: Hundred of Fishborough [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Blackenhurst -- formerly Worcestershire - Hundred of Barlichway
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [altered font?], Medieval
There is an entry for Oldberrow [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP1266/oldberrow/] [accessed 5 November 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Miller (1890) writes: "The long and short work, as it is called, betokens an earlier date than Norman [...] The church was restored 1875"; no font mentioned in Miller. The font is listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 3, 1945) notes: "There was a chapel at Oldberrow in the first half of the 12th century [...] The church was practically rebuilt in 1875, but old features preserved include a re-set window and a pillar-piscina of the 12th century and other windows of the 13th century and later. [...] The font appears to have had a cup-shaped bowl, now cut to an octagon, with incised foliage ornament; the stem is of quatrefoil plan and the whole is probably of the 13th century." English Heritage [Listing NGR: SP1213265985] (1967) notes; "C13 stone font: Curved octagonal cup bowl with simple incised stiff leaf design on 4-lobed stem; C19 lid."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.291102, -1.824019
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 17′ 27.97″ N, 1° 49′ 26.47″ W
UTM: 30U 580206 5794067

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: round [re-cut to octagonal]
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round [re-cut to octagonal]
Drainage Notes: lead-lining

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th century?
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2014-11-05 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.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