Badsey No. 2 / Baddesly / Badesei

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design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - with capitals and bases - foliated capitals - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: B&W photograph [edited] taken ca.1950 [Ref.: 2264/VIC/WBC/P] [http://archive.badsey.net/item/2264] [accessed 4 November 2014]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 December 2009 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1645815] [accessed 4 November 2014]

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 December 2009 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1645814] [accessed 4 November 2014]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: B&W photograph [edited] taken ca.1950 [Ref.: 2264/VIC/WBC/P] [http://archive.badsey.net/item/2264] [accessed 4 November 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13508BAD

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James

Church Patron Saints: St. James

Church Location: 34 High Street, Badsey, Worcestershire, WR11 7JZ

Country Name: England

Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Badsey is located about 3 km E of Evesham, 50 kms S of Birmingham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester

Historical Region: Hundred of Fishborough [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 14th century [base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Church Notes: church said to be 12thC, partly re-built late 13thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Badsey [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP0743/badsey/] [accessed 4 November 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Ecclesiologist (August 1866, no. 175: 249) includes a report of a June 26 excursion by the Worcester Diocesan Architectural Society in which the church at Basey was visited; on the font there it comments: "The font is hexagonal, with an attached shaft at each angle of the base". Miller (1890) reports a Norman north doorway here, and the remains of a stoup by the side of the century later south door. The font is noted in Mee (1938) as a modern basin raised on a 14th-century stem. Pevsner (1968) comments: "The stem is early C14 and has excellent leaf capitals". Brooks & Pevsner (2007) add that the plain basin is from 1885.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.086027, -1.896774

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 5′ 9.7″ N, 1° 53′ 48.38″ W

UTM: 30U 575591 5771181

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal, flat and plain; appears modern

REFERENCES

Brooks, Alan, Worcestershire, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2007

Mee, Arthur, The King's England: Worcestershire, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1938

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Worcestershire, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968