Whitchurch / Whitchurch-on-Ross

Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2023

Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 26 May 2024)

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches

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Image Source: digital photograph 1 August 2023 by Colin Smith

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view of church exterior - southwest view

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Image Source: digital photograph 1 August 2023 by Colin Smith

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view of church exterior - west view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Don Cload, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 April 2015 by Don Cload [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4445217] [accessed 19 My 2015]

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view of church interior - chancel

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2023

Image Source: digital photograph 1 August 2023 by Colin Smith

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view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1934

Image Source: Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. I: p.l. 38)

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the altered ol basin on a modern octagonal-to-square pedestal base; modern font cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2023

Image Source: digital photograph 1 August 2023 by Colin Smith

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09474WHI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Dubricius
Church Patron Saints: St. Dubricius aka Devereux, Dubric, Dyfrig]
Church Location: Old Wharf Lane, Whitchurch, County of Herefordshire HR9 6DQ
Country Name: England
Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the B4164, 6-7 km NE of Monmouth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century (late) [basin only] 14th - 15th century [base only] [composite font], Medieval / Late Medieval [altered font] [compositefont]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and font
No entry found for this Whitchurch in the Domesday survey. Tyrrell-Green (1928) lists a Norman font here, the basin of which is decorated with an "arcade in relief, imitating closely the structural arcade of the period". Described and illustrated in Herefordshire (1931-1934) as a baptismal font consisting of a "round bowl, with round-headed arcade in low relief, late 12th-century, lower edge cut away to octagonal form to fit 14th or 15th-century stem with square base." The entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: SO5561917496] (1985) notes: "late C12 font, circular bowl with incised arcading motif, later square base." Flat wooden lid, probably modern. In Rees (2003).

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.853415, -2.64604
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 51′ 12.29″ N, 2° 38′ 45.74″ W
UTM: 30U 524379 5744794

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, with moulded edge; modern

REFERENCES

Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1931-1934
Rees, Elizabeth, An essential guide to Celtic sites and their saints, London; New York: Burns & Oates, 2003
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928