Salwarpe / Salewarpe / Salewearpe / Salowarpa / Saltwarp / Salwarp / Sulwarp
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 November 2007 by Chris Allen [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/619905] [accessed 22 September 2014]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the re-cut font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © jmc4, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 September 2009 by jmc4 [www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/4485905675/in/pool-oldfonts] [accessed 7 June 2010]
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design element - motifs - vine
Scene Description: the re-cut font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © jmc4, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 September 2009 by jmc4 [www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/4485905675/in/pool-oldfonts] [accessed 7 June 2010]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 07361SAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century[re-cut in the 19th century], Late Perpendicular [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the S door
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael & All Angels
Church Address: Copcut Lane, Salwarpe, Worcestershire, WR9 0AH
Site Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A38, just SW of Droitwich, 8-10 km NNE of Worcester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester
Historical Region: Hundred of Clent
Additional Comments: altered font? (the present one; was painted earlier on; re-cut + modern base? also, paint removed) -- disappeared font? (the one from the early-12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Salwarpe [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO8762/salwarpe/] [accessed 22 September 2014], but neither of them mentions a cleric or a church in it. Noake (1851) writes: "The tower is at the western end, the foot of it being open to the church and occupied by seats, and a handsome octagonal font, having on each face a branch with two leaves quatrefoiled ; the foot of the font is pyramidal, but the upper part of the pedestal is square, with small circular shafts, engaged, at the angles; the whole being then deeply embedded in paint, but it has since been scraped, and placed within the south aisle." Miller (1890) notes that the chiefly 14th-century church here has "remains sufficient to shew that there was a church in Norman days", though the font itself he reports as "late Tudor". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 3, 1913) notes: "The earliest part of the present church is the nave arcade, dating from the 12th century. The north aisle is mid-14th-century work, and the south of a few years later", but reports the font as modern. English Heritage [Listing NGR: SO8746262072] (1969) reports: "C19 font with square base and octagonal basin". In Brooks & Pevsner (2007): "Shallow octagonal bowl with vine trail; possibly C16, re-cut in the C19." [NB: we have no information on the earlier fonts of this church]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 555600 5789907
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.256744, -2.185425
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 15′ 24.28″ N, 2° 11′ 7.53″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Brooks, Alan, Worcestershire, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 588
- 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: 79-80
- Noake, John, The rambler in Worcestershire, or, Stray notes on churches and congregations, Worcester: Published and sold by all booksellers, 1848, p. 23