Beckbury / Becheberie [Domesday] / Beckburye / Bikebir

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design element - motifs - floral - flower - 4-petal - in a quatrefoil - 8

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 December 2008 by Richard Law [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1081292] [accessed 7 July 2015]

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design element - motifs - panel

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view of church exterior - southeast view

view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "Inside St Milburga's Church. A fine set of organ pipes stands above the font."

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view of font in context

Scene Description: at the west end of the nave, looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 December 2008 by Richard Law [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1081292] [accessed 7 July 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 16234BEC

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Milburga

Church Patron Saints: St. Milburga [aka Milburh, Milburgha]

Church Location: Beckbury, Shropshire, TF11 9DG

Country Name: England

Location: Shropshire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located sandwiched between the B4176 to the SW, and the A464 to the NE, 6 km S of Shifnal, WNW of Wolverhampton

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lichfield

Historical Region: Hundred of Patton [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Munslow, Liberty and Borough of Wenlock

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Beckbury [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SJ7601/beckbury/] [accessed 7 July 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A font here is described in Newman & Pevsner (2006): "Font. Perp[endicular]. Octagonal. Panelled stem. Pointed quatrefoils enclosing four-petal flowers in the faces of the bowl." Anderson (1864) refers to a church belonging "to the great Saxon parish of St. Milburg", and a church in Beckbury is documented as falling under the minimum qualification to be entered in the assessment. The Victoria County History (Shropshire, vol. 10, 1998) notes: "church of ST. MILBURGA, so dedicated by c. 1740 [...] The incumbent was described as rector in 1279, (fn. 137) though the church was often called a chapel in the earlier 14th century and perhaps later. [...] Perpendicular font (restored 1892)". [NB: we have no information on the font of the 13th-century (?) church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.610764, -2.34848

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 36′ 38.75″ N, 2° 20′ 54.53″ W

UTM: 30U 544116 5829172

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2015-07-07 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Anderson, John Corbet, Shropshire, its early history and antiquities, comprising […], London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864

Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006