Bengeworth / Beningeorde / Bennicworte / Bennigeorge / Benninew / Benning wende / St. Peter Bengeworth

There are two entries for Bengeworth [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP0443/bengeworth/] [accessed 5 November 2014], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The Gentleman's Magazine (issue of June 1846, p. 626) illustrates the east end of the north side of the church of Bengeworth, in which a font appears: "The font has been placed in this spot in modern times" [NB: presumably it was moved there from the south side of the west end of the nave, the usual location]. Miller (1890) notes that the present church is "an entirely new building", the result of a re-building of the old one in 1861-62; unfortunately Miller (ibid.) does not give any details of the old one, nor does he mention a font here. The old edition of Pevsner's Worcestershire (1968) does not mention a font in either of the churches [the old church and the 19th-century one], but the 2007 revised ed. by Brooks and Pevsner notes: "C14-C15 font brought from the old church […] in 1917" [NB: the same source notes that the old church was demolished in 1870]. The round basin of this font appears to be made of blocks, but this could be caused by the multiple repairs and new stone inserts; the upper half of the base is a tapering octagonal stem; the lower half, also octagonal, begins with a moulding at the top and sp;ays out; the narrow octagonal plinth appears modern. The wooden cover is thick and round, with metal decoration and ring handle; probably Victorian.