Glazeley / Glasleye / Gleslei

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view of church exterior - south view
view of church exterior - southeast view
view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "12c font - Church of St Bartholomew Glazeley Shropshire" [NB: this is Blomfield's 19thC font].
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INFORMATION
FontID: 16317GLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Bartholomew
Church Patron Saints: St. Bartholomew
Church Location: Glazeley, Bridgnorth WV16 6AB, UK -- Tel.: +44 1746 862837
Country Name: England
Location: Shropshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the B4363, 4-5 km SSW of Bridgnorth, W of Birmingham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford
Historical Region: Hundred of Alnodestreu
Font Location in Church: In the churchyard [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Glazeley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SO7088/glazeley/] [accessed 11 October 2020]; it mentions a priest but not a church in it, thought there must have been one there. Anderson (1864) notes the presence of a priest in the Domesday survey entry for "Gleselei" [cf. supra]. Newman & Pevsner (2006) report a "plain tub-shaped Norman font" in the churchyard, while the font inside the church is said to be by A. W. Blomfield, responsible for the 19th-century church that replaced the medieval churches of Deuxhill and Glazeley. The entry for this church in Historic England [List Entry Number: 1188677] mentions two fonts: "Blomfield designed the font with its stem of clustered shafts and the polygonal pulpit with arcading", and "The plain Norman tub font belonging to the previous church is in the churchyard."
[NB: not clear which of the two medieval churches demolished (Deuxhill and Glazeley) this font belonged to -- cf. Index entry for Deuxhill]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.49121, -2.4383
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 29′ 28.36″ N, 2° 26′ 17.88″ W
UTM: 30U 538137 5815823
REFERENCES
Anderson, John Corbet, Shropshire, its early history and antiquities, comprising […], London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864
Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006