Lulsley / Lullsley
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: the former church at Lulsley, now a private residence
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Whatley, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 June 2008 by Peter Whatley [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/840277] [accessed 5 November 2014]
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Lulsley church. The former Lulsley church which is now a private residence viewed here from the graveyard which is still in used."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Halling, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 July 2013 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3552233] [accessed 5 November 2014]
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view of font and cover in context
![the font originally from Lulsley as it now stands in the north transept of the church at Alfrick [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1141107011_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the font originally from Lulsley as it now stands in the north transept of the church at Alfrick [cf. FontNotes]
view of font
![the Lulsley font now in St. Mary Magdalene's in Alfrick [cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/others/permission_not_available.jpg)
Scene Description: the Lulsley font now in St. Mary Magdalene's in Alfrick [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph by Ben read in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/330/] [accessed 5 November 2014]
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design element - motifs - moulding - flat moulding
Scene Description: the Lulsley font now in St. Mary Magdalene's in Alfrick [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph by Ben read in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/330/] [accessed 5 November 2014]
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design element - motifs - moulding - round
Scene Description: the Lulsley font now in St. Mary Magdalene's in Alfrick [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph by Ben read in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/330/] [accessed 5 November 2014]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the Lulsley font shown in the transept of St. Mary Magdalene's in Alfrick [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph by Ben read in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/330/] [accessed 5 November 2014]
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view of church interior - plan
Scene Description: showing the interior of Alfrick St. Mary's and the location of the (probably) late font [NB: this is not the font acquired from Lulsley, which is now located in St. Mary's transept]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © NOF Digitise Architecture England Consortium, 2008
Image Source: Church Plans Online, Published by the NOF Digitise Architecture England Consortium (in B&W photograph in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (1993) [http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/wo/alfri/index.htm] [accessed 20 April 2008])
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design element - motifs - moulding - round
Scene Description: the Lulsley font now in St. Mary Magdalene's in Alfrick [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph by Ben read in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/330/] [accessed 5 November 2014]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 13519LUL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century / 17th century, Norman? / Restoration?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Giles [now a private dwelling -- font in Alfrick St. Mary's since 1974]
Font Location in Church: Inside Alfrick St. Mary's, in the transept, since 1974
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]
Site Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Alfrick and Lulsley were both chapelries of Suckley
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Worcester]
Historical Region: Hundred of Doddingtree
Additional Comments: re-cycled font / moved font / altered font [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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Miller (1890) mentions Lullsley [sic] as a chapelry that belonged to Malvern Priory; the chapel was dedicated to St. Giles. A font from this chapel/church is noted in the Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 4, 1924): "The font is of the 12th century; it is circular, narrowing towards the centre, and has a moulded base. The top has been cut away." Noted in Pevsner (1968): "Font. Is this C17? It is a strange shape, heavily moulded". In Brooks & Pevsner (2007) as the original font from Lulsley. The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (1993), agrees with the VCH dating, and adds: "The bowl is unlined and has a drain plug. There is a fillet at the rim" [NB: the CRSBI (ibid) informs that this font was "brought from Lulsley church in 1974, when this was converted into a private dwelling" -- Alfrick had its own font, located at the west and of the nave, as shown in a 1885 church plan, probably a later font dating from the restoration of St. Mary's]]. The font, as it stands now, appears to be made of three pieces: a small bucket-shaped basin with a flat moulding around the upper rim, and a round moulding at the centre ring level; a wider lower base with two round mouldings; all of it raised on a narrow octagonal plinth of later date.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 542753 5783049
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.19624, -2.37449
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 11′ 46.46″ N, 2° 22′ 28.16″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 6.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 25 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 38 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 76 cm*
Notes on Measurements: NB: the VCH notes the top of the font had been cut off -- * CRSBI (2014)
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. 105
- Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Miller, George [Revd.], The Parishes of the Diocese of Worcester, Birmingham: Hall & English, 1890, vol. 2: 34
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Worcestershire, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968, p. 217