Winforton / Widferdestune
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Part of the parish church of St Michael and All Angels, Winforton, Herefordshire, seen from north-northeast".
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 November 2015 by Poliphilo [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Michael,_Winforton_2.JPG] [accessed 29 December 2018]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Halling, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 January 2012 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2783751] [accessed 29 December 2018]
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view of church exterior - southwest end
Scene Description: Source caption: "West tower of the parish church of St Michael and All Angels, Winforton, Herefordshire, seen from the southeast".
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 November 2015 by Poliphilo [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Michael,_Winforton_1.JPG] [accessed 29 December 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
![Source caption: "Interior, St Michael, Winforton. Now a combined church and village hall - the liturgical stuff jammed in at the East end. The wooden chancel arch doesn't look Victorian - Pevsner and John Leonard don't comment on it however." -- the font is now located in the chancel, left [north] side, partly visible here beyong the communion railing.](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1181229005_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Interior, St Michael, Winforton. Now a combined church and village hall - the liturgical stuff jammed in at the East end. The wooden chancel arch doesn't look Victorian - Pevsner and John Leonard don't comment on it however." -- the font is now located in the chancel, left [north] side, partly visible here beyong the communion railing.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Pankhurst, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2008 by Philip Pankhurst] [accessed 29 December 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "View along the nave from the chancel of Winforton church. Like an increasing number of parish churches Winforton church is being used for more than just worship."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Halling, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 January 2012 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2783755] [accessed 29 December 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the font in its new location; the wooden structure on the left here is the communion railing; to the right is the corner of the altar -- the liturgical furnishings were moved to the east end of the church so that the rest could be used also for civic purposes as a village hall
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hereforshire Past, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 November 2009, in Herefordshire Past [http://herefordshirepast.co.uk/churches/st-michael-all-angels-church-winforton/] [accessed 29 December 2018]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 09758WIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Angels
Church Location: Church Rd, Winforton, Hereford HR3 6SP, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A438, just W of Willersley, 9-10 km S of Kington
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford
Historical Region: Hundred of Elsdon
Font Location in Church: Inside the church; in the chancel, E side, in 2018 [not its original location]
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Winforton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SO2947/winforton/] [accessed 29 December 2018] neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The entry for this parish in the Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. III: 213) notes: "The Chancel was re-built and the North Transept added c. 1300 [...] Font: octagonal bowl with underside splayed to meet cylindrical stem on round steps, probably 13th-century, plain lid, probably 17th-century, pierced for former staples, etc." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SO2987046973] notes: "Parish church. C13 or earlier origins, part rebuilt and extended circa 1300 with further C16 and C17 alterations; restored in 1895. [...] The stone font is probably C13 and has an octagonal bowl and circular stem on two-stepped base."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.1166, -3.0256
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 6' 59" N, 3° 1' 32" W
UTM: 30U 498240 5773981
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1931-1934