Abbots Morton / Abbot's Morton / Mortone / Mortune [Domesday]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 May 2011 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2403622] [accessed 3 November 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Halling, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 May 2011 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2403625] [accessed 3 November 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font and cover
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Image Source: photograph in www.churches-uk-ireland.org/images/worcs/abbots_morton_fnt.jpg [accessed 3 November 2014]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 13358ABB
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Abbots Morton, Worcestershire, WR7 4NA
Country Name: England
Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located SE of Inkberrow, 7 km WSW of Alcester, 19-20 km E of Worcester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester
Historical Region: Hundred of Ash [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the S doorway
Century and Period: 12th century [basin only] / 19th century, Medieval / composite
There is an entry for [Abbots] Morton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP0255/abbots-morton/] [accessed 3 November 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Miller (1890) reports: "The font is probably Norman". Abbots Morton Worcestershire 1939 [www.parishmouse.co.uk/worcestershire/abbots_morton#abbots_morton_worcestershire_1939] [accessed 3 November 2014] describes the font as 12th-century, but re-cut. A font here is noted in the Parish's web site [www.abbotsmorton.info/st_peters.htm] [accessed 28 February 2008]: "The lovely old Font is [...] Norman". No mention of a font in Pevsner (1968) or Brooks & Pevsner (2007). English Heritage [Listing NGR: SP0267554974] (1959), however, reports: "late C19 plain circular font in C12 style". [NB: the present external appearance of the font is likely to elicit a rejection as ancient, but the bucket-shaped basin could very well be of 12th-century date -- needs closer examination of the inner well, rim, etc.]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.192693,
-1.961919
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 11′ 33.7″ N,
1° 57′ 42.91″ W
UTM: 30U 570957 5782978
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal with arrised top and pointed finial
REFERENCES
Miller, George [Revd.], The Parishes of the Diocese of Worcester, Birmingham: Hall & English, 1890
