Hill Crome / Croomb / Croome Montis / Heleycombe / Hilcrumbe / Hollecrombe / Hulcrombe / Hulecrumb / Hull Croome / Hullecrembe / Hylcromban / Hylcome / Hylle Crumbe
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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
Font ID: 10181AST
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 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
Site Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A4104, just W of the M5, 20 S of Worcester
Additional Comments: John Wilkes has photo of the church ext but nothing else -- Feb 2008: the church is Hill Crombe but the image is under Baughton in BSI Images
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]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photograph of this church
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-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.