Oddingley / Oddingesle / Oddingle / Oddinglegh / Oddingleye / Oddunalli / Odduncalea / Odduncgalea / Oddunclei / Oddungahlea / Odduncgalea / Oddvnclei
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
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Results: 5 records
design element - motifs - floral - rose
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes on September 2008 [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - fetterlock
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes on September 2008 [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior in context - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Oddingley Church seen from the Birmingham-Worcester canal."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Citterio, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 April 2010 by Citterio [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oddingly-Church.JPG] [accessed 29 September 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes on September 2008 [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Halling, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2009 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1304670] [accessed 29 September 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 09796ODD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century [re-cut], Perpendicular [altered?]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. James
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James
Church Address: Church Lane, Oddingley, Worcestershire WR9 7NE
Site Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located near Hadzor, 5 km ESE of Droitwich Spa and the A38
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester
Historical Region: Hundred of Oswaldslow
Additional Comments: altered font (the present font: re-cut)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Oddingley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO9059/oddingley/] [accessed 29 September 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Miller (1890) reports a church here thought to have been built "in the time of Richard II" [i.e., 1377-1399]; Miller (ibid.) adds: "The font is old", and gives the first recorded rector here as "Will's de Solers ... 1300". The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 3, 1913) notes about the church here: "No part of the fabric is earlier than the 15th century, when the existing building, with the exception of the tower, was erected. [...] The font is octagonal and is apparently original work recut. The moulded lower edge to the bowl is carved with roses and fetterlocks alternately." The font here is noted in Pevsner (1968): "Font. Perp[endicular]? Against the underside alternatingly a flower and and odd stirrup shape. Why?" Brooks & Pevsner (2007) add that the font is C15 but re-cut. Red sandstone octagonal baptismal font; floral and one other symbol at the underbowl chamfer, as noted in Pevsner; mouldings on the top and bottom of the stem. Modern cover: low pyramidal with cross finial. Listed in Andrews (1912) simply as an interesting font.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 559652 5786913
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.229402, -2.1266
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 13′ 45.85″ N, 2° 7′ 35.76″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone (red)
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
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. 107
- Miller, George [Revd.], The Parishes of the Diocese of Worcester, Birmingham: Hall & English, 1890, vol. 2: 56-57
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Worcestershire, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968, p. 227