Cradley / Crededale / Credelaie
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the 18th-century font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, September 2008 [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Halling, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 April 2008 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/775603] [accessed 6 November 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - west end
![the modern font and cover, visible here on the left [south] side, in the context of the tower arch and the west end -- is the round arch-head in the west wall where the remains of the old font are built in?](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1141107032_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the modern font and cover, visible here on the left [south] side, in the context of the tower arch and the west end -- is the round arch-head in the west wall where the remains of the old font are built in?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © St. James the Great, Cradley, 2014
Image Source: photograph in St. James the Great, Cradley [accessed 7 November 2014]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction – Fair Dealing
INFORMATION
Font ID: 09729CRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1, fragment
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. James the Great
Font Location in Church: Now re-used as rear-arch of the S doorway
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder]
Church Address: Rectory Lane, Cradley, Herefordshire, WR13 5LQ
Site Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 10 km NNE of Ledbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford
Historical Region: Hundred of Wimundestreu [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: recycled font: MUST USE - no images -- GET? -- The rear-arch is formed apparently of the two halves of the bowl of an octagonal font with the bottom cut away; the whole doorway is probably of about the date 1772 when the new font was provided."
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Cradley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO7347/cradley/] [accessed 6 November 2014]; the entry reports church lands in it, but not a church; the only priest that is included is one of the lords in 1086, probably from Hereford St. Peter's. A font here is described in the inventory of Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. II: "The rear-arch is formed apparently of the two halves of the bowl of an octagonal font with the bottom cut away; the whole doorway is probably of about the date 1772 when the new font was provided." The present font is a later addition, on which the Visit Herefordshire Churches page [www.visitherefordshirechurches.co.uk/cradley.aspx] [accessed 7 September 2008] notes: "The font is dated 1771 and bears the name of an eighteenth-century Rector, the Reverend Thomas Bisse. Brother of the Bishop of Hereford".
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photograph of the modern font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 541863 5775136
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.125169, -2.388498
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 7′ 30.61″ N, 2° 23′ 18.59″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: fragment
Font Shape: octagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- 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. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- 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: pl. 61