Offenham / Uffenham

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design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - 8

view of church exterior - southeast view

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]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07360OFF
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary and St. Milburgh
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. Milburga [aka Milburgh]
Church Location: Main Street, Offenham, Worcestershire, WR11 8SF
Country Name: England
Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands
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
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Perpendicular
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

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

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
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