Welsh Newton

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Results: 3 records

view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Welsh Newton church is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin and is one of a few English churches with a saint buried in its graveyard, St. John Kemble. The village is on the England/Wales border, lying just in England."

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 September 2013 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3667173] [accessed 19 May 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the basin of the font in the foreground

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the baptismal font is visible at the back [west end], left [south] side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Halling, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 September 2013 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3667183] [accessed 19 May 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09629WEL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Welsh Newton, County of Herefordshire NP25 5RH
Country Name: England
Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on the A466, 13 km WSW of Ross-on-Wye
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
No entry for Welsh Newton found in the Domesday survey. Described in Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. I: 249): "Font: tapering cylindrical bowl, with slightly convex sides and projecting band on lower part and narrow projecting band round bottom, short circular stem on modern step, 12th-century or earlier". Noted in the English Heritage entry [Listing NGR: SO4996118022] (1966): "C12 font, plain circular bowl with tapering sides, squat circular base."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.858325, -2.728877
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 51′ 29.97″ N, 2° 43′ 43.96″ W
UTM: 30U 518671 5745316

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: three
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle

REFERENCES

Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1931-1934