Mamble / Mamele / Mawmill / Mombell / Momela / Momylle

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: the re-cut basin

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 September 2000 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2236306] [accessed 18 November 2014]

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design element - motifs - roll moulding - parallel - 3

Scene Description: the base is probably of later date than the basin [cf. FontNotes]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: EXT NE digital photograph taken 9 June 2007 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/463992] [accessed 18 November 2014] CHANCEL digital photograph taken 4 September 2000 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2236298] [accessed 18 November 2014] FONT digital photograph taken 4 September 2000 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2236306] [accessed 18 November 2014]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Halling, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 June 2007 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/463992] [accessed 18 November 2014]

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view of church interior - chancel - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2000

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 September 2000 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2236298] [accessed 18 November 2014]

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view of font

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 September 2000 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2236306] [accessed 18 November 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09707MAM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Church Lane, Mamble, Worcs, DY14 9JY
Country Name: England
Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on the A456, between Bewdley and Tenbury, 8 km SE of Cleobury Mortimer
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester
Historical Region: Hundred of Doddingtree
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the SW corner of the nave [this church has also a south aisle]
Century and Period: 13th century (early?) [basin only?] [altered] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
There is an entry for Mamble [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO6871/mamble/] [accessed 24 October 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor priest in it. Miller (1890) reports a church here but mentions no font in it. The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 4, 1924) notes: "The church is first mentioned in 1231–2, when the advowson was granted to the Abbot of Wigmore by Robert de Wodeton and Hugolina Mustel. [...] The font is of original early 13th-century date and has a plain straight-sided circular bowl standing on a moulded stem of the same form." The Parish website [source: www.wyreforestwest.org.uk/mamble.htm] [accessed 1 June 2010] identifies the material as sandstone. Noted and illustrated in the CRSBI (2014): "Plain cylindrical bowl with rolled lower edge below a fillet on cylindrical moulded stem, which may be of later date. The bowl has at some time been broken and repaired, its rim re-cut and squared off. No lead lining."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.342216, -2.458506
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 20′ 31.98″ N, 2° 27′ 30.62″ W
UTM: 30U 536890 5799240

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 10 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 51 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 71 cm*
Basin Depth: 19 cm*
Basin Total Height: 23 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2014)

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-06-01 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2010-06-01 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Miller, George [Revd.], The Parishes of the Diocese of Worcester, Birmingham: Hall & English, 1890