Whitchurch / Whitchurch-on-Ross
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2023
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 26 May 2024)
Results: 6 records
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
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 26 May 2024)
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1934
Image Source: Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. I: p.l. 38)
Copyright Instructions: PD
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph 1 August 2023 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 26 May 2024)
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph 1 August 2023 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 26 May 2024)
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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - chancel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph 1 August 2023 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 26 May 2024)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 09474WHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late) [basin only] 14th - 15th century [base only] [composite font], Medieval / Late Medieval [altered font] [compositefont]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Dubricius
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Dubricius aka Devereux, Dubric, Dyfrig]
Church Address: Old Wharf Lane, Whitchurch, County of Herefordshire HR9 6DQ
Site Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B4164, 6-7 km NE of Monmouth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford
Additional Comments: recycled / altered font: the lower part of the cylindrical basin was recut to octagonal to fit a later base
Font Notes:
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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).
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 524379 5744794
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.853415, -2.64604
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 51′ 12.29″ N, 2° 38′ 45.74″ W
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, vol. I: p. 253 and pl. 38
- Rees, Elizabeth, An essential guide to Celtic sites and their saints, London; New York: Burns & Oates, 2003, p. 172
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 76