Beoley / Beleg / Beoleahe / Beolege / Boeley / Boleye / Brokeleigh / Buley
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2012 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3060208] [accessed 2 October 2014]
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view of font and cover - northeast side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 1 March 1993 by Ben Read;in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/1016/] [accessed 2 October 2014]
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view of font and cover - southeast side
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human figure - female - head - 4
Scene Description: view of the head on the sothwest side; the four heads are joined by the hair in the form of a moulding
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Parish of St. Leonard, Beoley, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph in the Parish website [www.stleonardsbeoley.org.uk/baptisms.html] [accessed 3 June 2010]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding - parallel - 2
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 1 March 1993 by Ben Read;in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/1016/] [accessed 2 October 2014]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 09780BEO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century [re-carved in the 17th century], Transitional / Early English [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Leonard
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, halfway down the N aisle, near the arcade separating it from the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Leonard
Church Address: Church Hill, Beoley, Worcestershire B98 9AR
Site Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the B4101, just NW of Redditch, 10 km E of Bromsgrove
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester
Historical Region: Hundred of Pershore -- formerly in Worcestershire
Additional Comments: altered font? / re-carved?
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Beoley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP0669/beoley/] [accessed 2 October 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Miller (1890) notes: "The font is probably Norman, being circular and ornamented with carving/" The font here is described in Andrews (1912): "the font is curiously adorned, the under side of the bowl being carved into four women's heads, joined by longs bands of hair." The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 4, 1924) notes: "The abbey of Alcester, which was founded in 1140 by Ralph Boteler, received a grant of this church from Geoffrey de Limesi and his mother Hawise, and it was confirmed to them by Henry II. [...] he nave and the western half of the chancel were built during the early part of the 12th century [...] The font is circular, cut out of a light sandstone, and dates from the early part of the 13th century. The surface of its bowl is relieved by four female heads with hair plaited in two strands which meet and overlap between the heads. The circular shaft has a moulded base standing on an octagonal pedestal which is now flush with the floor level." In Pevsner (1968). In Hartwell & Pevsner (2007): "Round, said to be C12 or C13, but the decoration at least could be C17: four big female heads on the underside, linked by the flowing tresses of their hair, rather liike swags. Nice cover with gilded dove on the underside, by Robert Pancheri, 1948." Noted and illustrated in the CRSBI (2014), with reference to the VCH and Pevsner above: "VCH dates the font to the early part of the 13thc. but Pevsner is uncertain and wonders if it could possibly be 12thc. The style of the carving, especially in its smooth 'sanded' finish, should be compared with sculpture at Bretforton and the base of the font at Elmley Castle, both of which may be early 13thc."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 574555 5797690
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.32446, -1.906052
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 19′ 28.06″ N, 1° 54′ 21.79″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 6.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 65 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 78 cm*
Basin Depth: 23 cm*
Basin Total Height: 40 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2014)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: yes; counterweight
Notes: octagonal base with concave pyramidal sides; painted, and with inscription on the sides; appears modern
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Andrews, Francis Baugh, Memorials of Old Worcestershire, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1912, p. 106
- Brooks, Alan, Worcestershire, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 134
- 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.
- Miller, George [Revd.], The Parishes of the Diocese of Worcester, Birmingham: Hall & English, 1890, vol. 2: 202-204
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Worcestershire, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968, p. 81