Heath nr. Ludlow / The Heath nr. Stoke St. Milborough
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view of font
Scene Description: the arches on the sides of the basin are not visible in Timmins engraving of ca. 1899 [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: engraving in Timmins (1899)
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design element - architectural - arch-head - round
Scene Description: the arches on the sides of the basin are barely discernible now
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 1997
Image Source: photograph taken August 1997 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2266288] [accessed 9 July 2015]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Pankhurst, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 May 2014 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4046053] [accessed 9 July 2015]
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view of church exterior - south portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Evans, 2014
Image Source: B&W version of a digital photograph taken 31 May 2014 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4046053] [accessed 9 July 2015]
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view of church exterior - south portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Pankhurst, 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 31 May 2014 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4046060] [accessed 9 July 2015]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Heath Chapel. The perfect Norman chapel, standing all alone in rough pasture. Repaired in 1912, but never 'restored' this is a priceless gem of a building, a Scheduled Ancient Monument with just 27 souls scattered around to look after it. I met 2 of them on my visit and they told me that they face a large repair bill for roof repairs but are determined to raise it. Centuries of whitewash hide medieval wall paintings, just waiting to be discovered, but hopefully not yet. A spellbinding interior that takes you back to the 17th century and beyond without any effort of imagination."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Pankhurst, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 May 2014 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4046060] [accessed 9 July 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
![the old font at the far [west] end of the nave](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150901064_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the old font at the far [west] end of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Pankhurst, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 May 2014 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4046826] [accessed 9 July 2015]
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view of church interior - chancel arch
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jonathan Thacker, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 February 2009 by Jonathan Thacker [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1830977] [accessed 9 July 2015]
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view of church interior - chancel and east end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Pankhurst, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 May 2014 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4046851] [accessed 9 July 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Pankhurst, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 May 2014 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4046063] [accessed 9 July 2015]
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view of font - southeast side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph 13 June 2023 by Ron Baxter [https://www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=2365] [accessed 18 July 2023]
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view of font - northwest side
Scene Description: the arch-heads almost invisible here
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph 13 June 2023 by Ron Baxter [https://www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=2365] [accessed 18 July 2023]
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view of font - east side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph 13 June 2023 by Ron Baxter [https://www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=2365] [accessed 18 July 2023]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 16252HEA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Heath Chapel
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Address: Oridleway, Heath, Craven Arms SY7 9DS, United Kingdom
Site Location: Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located near Bouldon, N of Stoke St. Milborough, 12 km NE of Ludlow
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford
Historical Region: Hundred of Munslow, Liberty and Borough of Wenlock
Font Notes:
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No entry found for The Heath in the Domesday survey. Timmins (1899) notes: "the Heath Chapel, a small, ancient edifice […] it has remained practically untouched since the Norman builders brought their work to completion, seven hundred years ago […] Inside […] upon the rough stone-flagged floor stands a plain, bowl-shaped font, evidently coeval with the building itself". The Victoria County History (Shropshire, vol. 10, 1998) notes: "A chapel was built in the 12th century and was dependent in the mid 14th on Stoke St. Milborough church. [...] The mid 12th-century chapel, of no known dedication, is a 'perfect example of a small Norman church'. [...] The cylindrical tub font is plain but for shallow incised arcading round part of the top; lines in a spandrel on the north side seem to form a face. The font stood by 1852 on one square stone platform set diagonally upon another." Newman & Pevsner (2006) note: "Font. Norman, tub-shaped, with just a frieze of incised arches below the top." Described and illustrated in the CRSBI [https://www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=2365] [accessed 18 July 2023] as a tub-shaped limestone font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 523566 5813005
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.4667, -2.6531
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 28′ 0.12″ N, 2° 39′ 11.16″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 9 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 60 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 78 cm*
Basin Total Height: 57 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 93 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006, p. 295
- Timmins, H. Thornhill, Nooks and corners of Shropshire, London: Elliot Stock, 1899, p. 122