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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 10181AST
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on the A4104, just W of the M5, 20 S of Worcester
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photograph of this church
Font Notes:
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The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 3, 1913) notes: "About 1235 Eudes de Beauchamp granted to Roger, Abbot of Pershore, the advowson of the church of Hill Croome [...] The font is circular with a tapering bowl." [NB: Baughton is a hamlet of Hill Crome]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-09-15 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.