Glazeley / Glasleye / Gleslei
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of font and cover
![Source caption: "12c font - Church of St Bartholomew Glazeley Shropshire" [NB: this is Blomfield's 19thC font].](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/others/permission_not_available.jpg)
Scene Description: Source caption: "12c font - Church of St Bartholomew Glazeley Shropshire" [NB: this is Blomfield's 19thC font].
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © jmc4, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2009 by jmc4 [www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/4567467519/] [accessed 11 October 2020]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 16317GLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Bartholomew
Font Location in Church: In the churchyard [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Bartholomew
Church Address: Glazeley, Bridgnorth WV16 6AB, UK -- Tel.: +44 1746 862837
Site Location: Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
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 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]
[NB: not clear which of the two medieval churches demolished (Deuxhill and Glazeley) this font belonged to -- cf. Index entry for Deuxhill]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 538137 5815823
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.49121, -2.4383
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 29′ 28.36″ N, 2° 26′ 17.88″ W
REFERENCES
- Anderson, John Corbet, Shropshire, its early history and antiquities, comprising […], London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864, p. 56
- Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006, p. 272