Peterchurch No. 2 / Alcamestune / Peter Church / Urishay
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Old chapel at Urishay. To the left of the old chapel are the ruins of Urishay Castle."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Halling, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2007 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/392254] [accessed 18 May 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the church interior before the restoration -- Source caption: "
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Herefordshire Council, 2015
Image Source: undated B&W photograph in Herefordshire History [www.herefordshirehistory.org.uk/archive/herefordshire-images/peterchurch-images/160414] [accessed 18 May 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the restored chapel interior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alex Ramsey, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph by Alex Ramsey in [www.friendsoffriendlesschurches.org.uk/CMSMS/uploads/images/Gallery/urishay/Urishay1-Alex-Ramsey.jpg] [accessed 18 May 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the church interior before the restoration
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Herefordshire Council, 2015
Image Source: undated B&W photograph in Herefordshire History [www.herefordshirehistory.org.uk/archive/herefordshire-images/peterchurch-images/160476] [accessed 18 May 2015]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the church interior before the restoration -- the 'font' consists of a mortar raised on the base said to the of the 19th century [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Herefordshire Council, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of an undated B&W photograph in Herefordshire History [www.herefordshirehistory.org.uk/archive/herefordshire-images/peterchurch-images/160414] [accessed 18 May 2015]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 09659PET
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Urishay Castle Chapel [redundant]
Church Location: Peterchurch, Herefordshire HR2 0SX
Country Name: England
Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on the N side of Urishay Castle, itself about 2 km from Peterchurch
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford
Historical Region: Hundred of Stradel [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the chapel [prior to its restoration]
Century and Period: [composite]
Church Notes: 12thC chapel [NB: The ruins of Urishay Castle Chapel, which dates to the 12th century, are owned and maintained since 1978 by the Friends of Friendless Churches.] -- Urishay Castle is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and has a listed building status of "Not Listed".
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Alcamestune [cf. infra] in folio 187r of the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/alcamestune/] [accessed 18 May 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Marshall (1938) notes: "Alcamestune was probably Urishay, where there may have been later a motte and bailey". An object described in Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. I: 211) as a "round stone mortar with lugs, set on modern stem", used as baptismal font in the past in the chapel of Urishay Castle. The English Heritage entry [Listing NGR: SO3229637611] (1949) reports " Fittings: nave retains C19 font base", but does not mention the old mortar. [NB: recent photographs of the chapel interior do not appear to include the 'font'].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.0328, -2.9883
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 1′ 58.08″ N, 2° 59′ 17.88″ W
UTM: 30U 500803 5764686
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round (with lugs)
REFERENCES
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1931-1934
Marshall, George, "The Norman Occupation in the Golden Valley, Ewyas and Clifford, and their motte and bailey castles", 1938, Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club, 1938