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view of church exterior - southwest view

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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Stowell, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 April 2005 by David Stowell [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2705] [accessed 23 September 2014]
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 13337HIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [restored], Medieval [altered]
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: Hill Croome, Worcestershire WR8 0QB
Site Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 11 km N of Tewksbury, 20 km S of Worcester, between the A38 and the M5, near the county border with Gloucestershire
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester
Historical Region: Hundred of Oswaldslow
Additional Comments: altered font / restored? -- not in John Wilkes' montage pages (checked 2 Feb 2008]
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Hill Croome [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO8840/hill-croome/] [accessed 23 September 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Miller (1890) writes: "The font is circular and probably Norman." 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 earliest details are of the 14th century, to which date the whole building probably belongs [...] The font is circular with a tapering bowl." Brooks & Pevsner (2007) write: "Renewed C12 tub bowl; cover 1981 (replacing a humble C17 one, banished to the tower)."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 557159 5768247
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.06186, -2.166237
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 3′ 42.7″ N, 2° 9′ 58.45″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: two covers: the one in use is 1981; the old one in the tower [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

  • Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
  • Brooks, Alan, Worcestershire, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 372
  • Miller, George [Revd.], The Parishes of the Diocese of Worcester, Birmingham: Hall & English, 1890, vol. 2: 104-105