Pedmore / Pebbmer / Pebmore / Peuemore / Pevemore

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 13572PED
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: old church demolished 1869; re-built 1871 re-using some of the old bulding materials
Church Address: Pedmore Lane, Pedmore, West Midlands, DY9 0SW
Site Location: West Midlands, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A491, in the outskirts of Stourbridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester
Historical Region: Hundred of Clent -- formerly in Worcestershire
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 11th-12thC church here)
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Pedmore [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO9182/pedmore/] [accessed 22 September 2014]; it reports a priest, but mentions no church in it. Miller (1890) notes "a handsome tympanum of Norman work [...] The font is old, of the 14th century, and was restored when the church was restored 1871." The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 3, 1913) notes: "The font, perhaps of the 15th century, is octagonal, with tracery in the panels on each face, and a thick octagonal stem with no base". English Heritage [Listing NGR: SO9118482129] (1949) reports "a C14 font" in this church. In Pevsner (1968): "Font. Octagonal, with panels with figures of eight. Is that Jacobean?" [NB: the CRSBI (2008) entry for Pedmore points out that some of the stones from the original 12th-century church here show some stylistic resemblances between carving on the tympanum, particularly the forward-facing lion's head, with a capital in the cloister at Reading Abbey (see Stone 19.., pl.37a), as well as to the font at Holt and the upper stem of the font at Broome"].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 559063 5809987
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.43689, -2.131167
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 26′ 12.8″ N, 2° 7′ 52.2″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

  • Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
  • 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: 171-172
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Worcestershire, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968, p. 234