Offenham / Uffenham

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Halling, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2010 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2004637] [accessed 5 November 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

Font ID: 07360OFF
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th - 16th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary and St. Milburgh
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin & St. Milburga [aka Milburgh]
Church Address: Main Street, Offenham, Worcestershire, WR11 8SF
Site Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A46, 5 km NE of Evesham, in the Vale of Evesham, Wychavon district
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester
Historical Region: Hundred of Fishborough [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Balckenhurst
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Offenham in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP0546/offenham/] [accessed 5 November 2014]; a church is reported in it. Miller (1890) reports the church here as "rebuilt, excepting the tower, in 1861"; no font mentioned in Miller. The present font here is listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. In Brooks & Pevsner (2007): "Octagonal, Perp[endicular]; large bowl with fleurons in quatrefoils." The Offenham entry in the parish web site [www.ourbenefice.org.uk/] [accessed 5 November 2014] notes that the rebuilt tower was originally 12th-century.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 573778 5774276
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.114097, -1.922557
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 6′ 50.75″ N, 1° 55′ 21.2″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

  • Brooks, Alan, Worcestershire, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 506
  • Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 228
  • Miller, George [Revd.], The Parishes of the Diocese of Worcester, Birmingham: Hall & English, 1890, vol. 2: 18