Rock nr. Kidderminster / Acha / Aka / Ake / Akenborough / Aker / Hac / Oke / Rooke

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design element - motifs - floral - in a circle

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5420007] [accessed 13 January 2019]

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design element - motifs - foliage - 3-lobed leaves

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5420001] [accessed 13 January 2019]

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design element - motifs - interlace - linked rings

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5420001] [accessed 13 January 2019]

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view of basin - northeast side

Scene Description: Source caption: "Rock, Ss Peter and Paul Church: The font with Norman Hereford School of Stonemasons bowl [...] (detail)"

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5420007] [accessed 13 January 2019]

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view of basin - northwest side

Scene Description: Source caption: "Rock, Ss Peter and Paul Church: The font with Norman Hereford School of Stonemasons bowl".

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5420001] [accessed 13 January 2019]

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view of church exterior - north portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "Norman north doorway of the parish church of SS Peter and Paul, Rock, Worcestershire, with carving of the Herefordshire school".

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 June 2011 by Toni Grist [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:North_doorway,_Rock.jpg] [accessed 12 January 2018]

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view of church exterior - north portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 June 2011 by Toni Grist [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Romanesque_carving,_Rock.jpg] [accessed 12 January 2018]

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view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: digital phtograph taken in 2008 by M uba [www.panoramio.com/photo/11888664] [accessed 27 October 2014]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "A wealthy Grade I listed Norman church in the village of Rock in Worcestershire. Also the largest Norman village church in the county".

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 August 2018 by Fabian Musto [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5927164] [accessed 12 January 2019]

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 August 2018 by Fabian Musto [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5930217] [accessed 12 January 2019]

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view of church interior - chancel arch - column - base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5420073] [accessed 12 January 2019]

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view of church interior - chancel arch - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Romanesque capitals, chancel arch, St Peter and St Paul, Rock".

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 June 2011 by Toni Grist [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Romanesque_capitals,_Rock.jpg] [accessed 12 January 2018]

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view of church interior - chancel arch - north side - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Rock, Ss Peter and Paul Church: Left hand Norman chancel arch capital. Showing a muzzled bear and green man."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5420068] [accessed 12 January 2019]

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view of church interior - chancel arch - south side - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Rock, Ss Peter and Paul Church: Right hand Norman chancel arch capital. Man with a goatee beard, Sagittarius figure and what can only be described as a contortionist."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5420029] [accessed 12 January 2019]

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view of church interior - chancel arch - south side - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Rock, Ss Peter and Paul Church: Right hand Norman chancel arch capital. Lion with modest mane biting its own enormous tail."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5420022] [accessed 12 January 2019]

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view of church interior - chancel arch - south side - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Rock, Ss Peter and Paul Church: Right hand chancel arch capitals".

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5420015] [accessed 12 January 2019]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: showing the extent of the chancel arch

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 August 2018 by Fabian Musto [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5930090] [accessed 12 January 2019]

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view of church interior - plan

Image Source: plan in [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42902] [accessed 24 April 2008]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2010 by Adrian Fletcher [http://www.paradoxplace.com/Photo%20Pages/UK/Britain_Centre/Rock/Rock.htm] [accessed 4 June 2010]

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view of font - northeast side

Image Source: B&W photograph by Ben Read (1992) in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/1036/] [accessed 27 October 2014]

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view of font - northwest side

Image Source: B&W photograph by Ben Read (1992) in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/1036/] [accessed 27 October 2014]

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view of font - southeast side

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view of font - southwest side

Image Source: B&W photograph by Ben Read (1992) in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/1036/] [accessed 27 October 2014]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2010 by Adrian Fletcher [http://www.paradoxplace.com/Photo%20Pages/UK/Britain_Centre/Rock/Rock.htm] [accessed 4 June 2010]

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view of font and cover - northeast side

Scene Description: Source caption: "Rock, Ss Peter and Paul Church: The font with Norman Hereford School of Stonemasons bowl [...] The base is Victorian."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5420010] [accessed 13 January 2019]

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view of font and cover - northwest side

Scene Description: Source caption: "Norman cauldron shaped font in St Peter's church, Rock."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 November 2010 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2177558] [accessed 13 January 2019]

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view of font and cover - west side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 September 2000 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2236328] [accessed 13 January 2019]

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view of font and cover in context - northwest side

Scene Description: Source caption: "Rock, Ss Peter and Paul Church: The font with Norman Hereford School of Stonemasons bowl".

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5419993] [accessed 13 January 2019]

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view of font and cover in context - west side

Scene Description: Source caption: "Rock, Ss Peter and Paul Church: The font with Norman Hereford School of Stonemasons bowl".

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5419998] [accessed 13 January 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13529ROC

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul

Church Location: Porchbrook Rd, Rock, Kidderminster DY14 9RX, UK -- Tel.: +44 1299 266580

Country Name: England

Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A456, 8 km SW of Bewdley, 8 km W of Stourport, 11-12, WSW of Kidderminster

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester

Historical Region: Hundred of Doddingtree

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the S aisle, W end, just W of the S entrance

Century and Period: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Herefordshire school / Aston Master?

Cognate Fonts: the font at Bayton [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Adrian Fletcher, of www.paradoxplace.com, for his photograph of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

No entry found for either Rock or Ake in the Domesday survey or in Miller (1890). Noake (1868) reports "a curious circular font" in this church. The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 4, 1924) notes: "There was a priest, and possibly also a church, at Alton in 1086 [...] and Ralph de Toeni when granting the manor of Alton to the Abbot of St. Evroul gave it 'with its church.' [...] Mainard, Abbot of St. Evroul, when quoting this charter in 1292 in defence of his claim to Alton Woods, stated that it was a grant of 'Auvynton cum ecclesia de Hac,' [...] which seems to show that the church of Alton is identical with the present church of Rock, and not, as supposed by Habington [...] The nave and the western part of the chancel were built in the first half of the 12th century [...] The stone font dates from the 12th century, and has a circular bowl, the surface of which is enriched by formal foliated and strap ornament in low relief. The stem is composed of a central and four engaged shafts with scalloped capitals and moulded bases." [NB: the whole base is modern]. In Pevsner (1968): "Norman, cauldron-shaped, with nine rosettes connected with clasps. The font is similar to that at Bayton nearby". Brooks & Pevsner (2007) note additionally: "Base by [Frederick] Preedy". Zarnecki (1990) suggests the font may be the work of the Aston Master, responsible for the tympanum of the church at Aston. The entry for this church in Historic England [https://historicengland.org.uk/services-skills/grants/visit/st-peter-and-st-paul-rock-dy14-9st/] [accessed 12 January 2019] notes: "Large Norman parish church. The nave and chancel were built c1150 with a large tower and south aisle added c1510. 19th century restorations by F Preedy. Contains notable examples of Norman features, especially the highly decorated chancel arch"; no font mentioned in this entry. Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2014): "The motifs on the font are similar to some on the chancel arch (second order, E side), and the font at nearby Bayton bears carving in a similar style."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.3387, -2.396

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 20′ 19.32″ N, 2° 23′ 45.6″ W

UTM: 30U 541151 5798882

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: cauldron-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 14.5 cm [calculated]

Diameter (inside rim): 61 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 90 cm*

Basin Total Height: 43 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2014)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: flat and round; appears modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2008-04-24 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

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

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. Accessed: 2008-04-24 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.

Noake, John, Noake's Guide to Worcestershire: the complete text, London; Worcester: Longman and Co.; J. Noake, 1868

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Worcestershire, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968

Zarnecki, George, "Germanic animal motifs in Romanesque sculpture", 11, 22 (1990), Artibus et Historiae, 1990, pp. 189-203; r["References"]