Grendon Bishop / Bishop's Grendon / Grenedene

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Source caption: "Disused church, locked up and even the porch blocked by tin sheeting. No road access."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Disused church, locked up and even the porch blocked by tin sheeting. No road access."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bob Embleton, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 April 2006 by Bob Embleton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/161656] [accessed 7 December 2014]
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view of church exterior - south view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Trevor Rickard, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 April 2009 by Trevor Rickard [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1515573] [accessed 7 December 2014]
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view of church exterior in context

Source caption: "The church which is dedicated to St John the Baptist and dates from 1787-1788 and like many churches underwent some Victorian restoration; it is a grade II listed building. The church stands among fields with no road access and is no longer used as a church."
Scene Description: Source caption: "The church which is dedicated to St John the Baptist and dates from 1787-1788 and like many churches underwent some Victorian restoration; it is a grade II listed building. The church stands among fields with no road access and is no longer used as a church."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Halling, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 November 2012 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3229323] [accessed 7 December 2014]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 09673GRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Grendon Bishop, Herefordshire HR7 4TE
Country Name: England
Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 6.5 km WNW of Bromyard, 23 km NE of Hereford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford
Historical Region: Hundred of Broxash
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century / 18th century, Medieval? / Restoration?
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Grendon Bishop [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [www.domesdaybook.co.uk/herefordshire1.html] [accessed 7 December 2014] [details of the entry not available at present]. A font here is reported in the Post Office Directory of Herefordshire of 1863 [www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/HEF/GrendonBishop/PostOffice1863.html] [accessed 7 December 2014] Littlebury's Directory and Gazetteer of Herefordshire (1876-1877) [http://texts.wishful-thinking.org.uk/Littlebury1876/GrendonBishop.htm] [accessed 7 December 2014] reports a font in this church which had been re-built in 1788, and enlarged 1869-1870. Described in the inventory of Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. II: 83): "Font: cylindrical, partly tapering bowl, now painted over, possibly 12th or 13th-century." English Heritage (1973), however, reports: "The church is of C12 origin, evidence for which is the re-set south tower window. [...] The round tub font is probably C18."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.203444, -2.591111
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 12′ 12.4″ N, 2° 35′ 28″ W
UTM: 30U 527943 5783745

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

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