Lulsley / Lullsley

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.