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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Halling, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 March 2009 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1197518] [accessed 2 May 2012]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gil [Tudor] Barlow, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 January 2012 by Gil [Tudor] Barlow [http://tudorbarlow.wordpress.com/] [accessed 2 May 2012]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION [requested] NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font and cover are visible at the far back [west], behind the left [south] bank of pews
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gil [Tudor] Barlow, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 January 2012 by Gil [Tudor] Barlow [http://tudorbarlow.wordpress.com/] [accessed 2 May 2012]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gil [Tudor] Barlow, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 January 2012 by Gil [Tudor] Barlow [http://tudorbarlow.wordpress.com/] [accessed 2 May 2012]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION [requested] NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 09849SED
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1331?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Main Street, Sedgeberrow, Worcestershire WR11 7UY
Site Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 5 km SSW of Evesham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester
Historical Region: Hundred of Oswaldslow [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Halfshire
Additional Comments: permission requested from Gil [Tudor] Barlow (email of 2may2012)/mt [never replied Sept 2014] -- disppeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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There is entry for Sedgeberrow [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP0238/sedgeberrow/] [accessed 30 September 2014]; it mentions a priest and church lands in it. Miller (1890) reports an old font in this church restored in 1868. The font here is listed in Andrews (1912) simply as an interesting baptismal font "dated A.D. 1331". [an inscription? 1331 was the year of the dedication of this church]. The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 3, 1913) writes: "At the date of the Domesday Survey there was a priest at Sedgeberrow who held half a hide of land. [...] An entry in the Worcester Episcopal Register records the dedication of the church with its three altars in 1331, [...] and the building has remained almost intact from that time. [...] The font appears to be original with the church, though the simplicity of its detail suggests an earlier period. It is round in plan, with a cup-shaped bowl, a cylindrical stem and a base with a large rounded upper mould." Dated in Brooks & Pevsner (2007): "probably C13". English Heritage [Listing NGR: SP0245438514] (1959), however, reports: "The circular font and carved timber pulpit are C19."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 570984 5766527
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.0448, -1.96496
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 2′ 41.28″ N, 1° 57′ 53.86″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: chalice-shaped, round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
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
- Brooks, Alan, Worcestershire, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 590
- Miller, George [Revd.], The Parishes of the Diocese of Worcester, Birmingham: Hall & English, 1890, vol. 2: 199