Grendon Bishop / Bishop's Grendon / Grenedene
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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
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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view of church exterior - northeast view
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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INFORMATION
Font ID: 09673GRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century / 18th century, Medieval? / Restoration?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Address: Grendon Bishop, Herefordshire HR7 4TE
Site Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: painted font: painted over later [whitewash?]
Font Notes:
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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."
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
UTM: 30U 527943 5783745
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.203444, -2.591111
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 12′ 12.4″ N, 2° 35′ 28″ W
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, vol. II: p. 83 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=124911] [accessed 7 December 2014]