Clifton-upon-Teme / Clifton on Tamede / Clifton-on-Teme / Clifton on Themede / Cliftune / Clistun ultra Tame / Clistune / Clyfton upon Tempned
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design element - motifs - claw, leaf or spur - 4
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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design element - motifs - moulding
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of font and cover
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INFORMATION
FontID: 16501CLI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Kenelm
Church Patron Saints: St. Kenelm [aka Kenelme]
Church Location: Clifton-upon-Teme, Worcestershire, WR6 6DJ
Country Name: England
Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on the B4204, 17 km WNW of Worcester, 15 km ESE of Tenbury Wells [Diocese of Worcester]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesis of Worcester
Historical Region: Hundred of Doddingtree
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the S aisle, opposite the S entranceway, by the second pillar of the arcade separating it from the main nave
Century and Period: 13th century [basin only] -- 14th century [base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
There is an entry for this Clifton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO7161/clifton-on-teme/] [accessed 22 October 2014], and it reports a priest in it, but not a church, though there probably was one here. Miller (1890) notes the restored 13th-century church, but mentions no font in it. The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 4, 1924) notes a nave of the early-13th century, and a south aisle, where the font is located, of ca. 1300: "The sandstone font has a deep hexagonal bowl, with slightly curved sides, diminishing in size towards the stem, and a projecting upper edge with a hollow moulding; the bowl is probably of the 13th century, and the short octagonal stem, with square base and angular stops, of the 14th century." Noted in Brooks & Pevsner (2007) as 13th-century, but "much renewed".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.251739,
-2.419486
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 15′ 6.26″ N,
2° 25′ 10.15″ W
UTM: 30U 539628 5789197
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material:
wood,
oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decorations and ring handle
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-05-07 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Miller, George [Revd.], The Parishes of the Diocese of Worcester, Birmingham: Hall & English, 1890
Noake, John, The rambler in Worcestershire, or, Stray notes on churches and congregations, Worcester: Published and sold by all booksellers, 1848
