Church Lench / Bircopefleng / Circeleng / Circelenz / Ciriclinc / Lench Roculf / Lenchewick

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 May 2007 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/439988] [accessed 11 September 2014]

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view of font

Scene Description: the modern font

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the modern font

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view of font cover

Scene Description: the modern font

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Tudor Barlow, April 2008 [http://www.flickr.com/photos/tudorbarlow/2398944980/] [accessed 17 April 2008]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13515LEN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Main Street, Church Lench, Worcestershire, WR11 4UE

Country Name: England

Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the B4088 and A46, 8-9 km NNW of Evesham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester

Historical Region: Hundred of Ash

Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Church Lench [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP0251/church-lench/] [accessed 11 September 2014], and it reports a priest in it, although it mentions no church. Miller (1890) reports here a church "entered by a good Norman doorway [...] The font is surmounted by a well-proportioned and handsome cover". The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 3, 1913 ) informs: "In the 12th century the church consisted of a nave and a short chancel, but rebuilding has destroyed almost all traces of its early history" but adds that the present font is modern. The octagonal baptismal font and cover of ca. 1854 are by Preedy, who was responsible for the 1852-1853 restoration of the church [NB: the original building dated back to Norman times, but we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.159609, -1.965748

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 9′ 34.59″ N, 1° 57′ 56.69″ W

UTM: 30U 570748 5779295

LID INFORMATION

Date: ca. 1854? / Victorian

Material: wood,

Apparatus: yes

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2008-06-29 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Miller, George [Revd.], The Parishes of the Diocese of Worcester, Birmingham: Hall & English, 1890