Strensham / Straynsham / Strenchesham / Strenghesham / Strengesho / Strengsham
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: EXT S digital photograph taken 9 January 2008 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/653328] [accessed 21 October 2014]
CHANCEL digital photograph taken 19 June 2010 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2010485] [accessed 21 October 2014]
INT W END digital photograph in The Churches Conservation Trust [www.visitchurches.org.uk/Ourchurches/Completelistofchurches/church-of-st-john-the-baptist-strensham-worcestershire/] [accessed 21 October 2014] Fair Dealing
MODERN FONT digital photograph taken 15 September 2013 by Tudor Barlow [www.flickr.com/photos/tudorbarlow/10866912004/] [accessed 21 October 2014] NO P
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Halling, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 January 2008 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/653328] [accessed 21 October 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - west end
Scene Description: with the modern font partially visible beneath the gallery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Churches Conservation Trust, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph in The Churches Conservation Trust [www.visitchurches.org.uk/Ourchurches/Completelistofchurches/church-of-st-john-the-baptist-strensham-worcestershire/] [accessed 21 October 2014]
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view of church interior - chancel - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Halling, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 June 2010 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2010485] [accessed 21 October 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font in context
Scene Description: the modern 'neo-Roman' font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tudor Barlow, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 September 2013 by Tudor Barlow [www.flickr.com/photos/tudorbarlow/10866912004/] [accessed 21 October 2014]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 09781STR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist [redundant]
Font Location in Church: [NB: the modern font is located inside the church, at the W end of the nave, beneath the gallery]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Notes: church now redundant, in the care of The Churches Conservation Trust
Church Address: Church Rd., Strensham, Worcestershire WR8 9LW
Site Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A 4104, 10 km SW of Pershore
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester
Historical Region: Hundred of Pershore
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the present font appears modern, neo-Norman, which means there is an earlier font of the 13thC (?) that has disappeared)
Font Notes:
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Strensham has been identified as the 'berewick' mentioned in the entry for Comberton [Cumbrintune] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO9039/strensham/] [accessed 21 October 2014], the entry reporting a priest in it. Noake (1848) writes: "Underneath the gallery is a Norman font, cylindrical, but slightly larger at the top than at the bottom. and standing on a shaft nearly as thick as itself. The outer face of the font is covered with arcade work, the arches of which are semi circular and do not intersect each other; it is rudely carved." Miller (1890) reports a 12th-century font in the Church of St. John here. Described in Andrews (1912): "The font at Strensham is rather remarkable, being cylindrical and massive, a plain, round-arch arcading decorating the bowl, which itself is very shallow." The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 4, 1924) notes: "Strensham seems originally to have been a chapelry of the church of Holy Cross, Pershore, for in 1236 an ordinance as to tithes between the chapel of Strensham and church of Pershore was made [...] The building was apparently largely rebuilt and perhaps lengthened towards the west in the 14th century. There is no detail of an earlier period", but it categorically states, however: "The font is modern". The entry in English Heritage (1965) reports: "The C19 neo-Norman tub font is decorated with blind round arches." Brooks & Pevsner (2007) write: "If Norman, entirely re-cut". The inner well of the basin is of the wrong shape and depth for an early font, therefore it is likely to be modern.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 559957 5768385
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.06281, -2.1254
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 3′ 46.12″ N, 2° 7′ 31.44″ W
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. 619
- Miller, George [Revd.], The Parishes of the Diocese of Worcester, Birmingham: Hall & English, 1890, vol. 2: 232
- Noake, John, The rambler in Worcestershire, or, Stray notes on churches and congregations, Worcester: Published and sold by all booksellers, 1848, p. 261