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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 May 2014 by Ian S [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4004898] [accessed 2 October 2014]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

EXT SW digital photograph taken 31 May 2014 by Ian S [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4004907] [accessed 2 October 2014]
EXT SE digital photograph taken 31 May 2014 by Ian S [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4004898] [accessed 2 October 2014]
FONT digital photograph taken 21 September 2013 by Tudor Barlow [www.flickr.com/photos/tudorbarlow/10849946464/] [accessed 2 October 2014]NP

Scene Description: EXT SW digital photograph taken 31 May 2014 by Ian S [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4004907] [accessed 2 October 2014] EXT SE digital photograph taken 31 May 2014 by Ian S [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4004898] [accessed 2 October 2014] FONT digital photograph taken 21 September 2013 by Tudor Barlow [www.flickr.com/photos/tudorbarlow/10849946464/] [accessed 2 October 2014]NP

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the altered font [cf. FontNotes] at the west end of the nave, south side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 September 2013 by Tudor Barlow [www.flickr.com/photos/tudorbarlow/10849946464/] [accessed 2 October 2014]

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 16533BES

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Church / Chapel Name: Chapel of St. Peter

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter

Church Address: 1 Harewell Lane, Besford, Worcestershire WR8 9AT

Site Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located near Pershore

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester

Historical Region: Hundred of Pershore

Additional Comments: disused font / restored font / altered font (the present font) -- disappeared font? (the one from the likely Domesday-time church here)

Font Notes: Click to view

There is an entry for this Besford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO9144/besford/] [accessed 2 October 2014]; the entry does not mention a church in it, the only priest noted being "William the priest", one of the three lords of the manor in 1086. Miller (1890) reports the 14th-century church here as "a chapelry of Pershore" and does not mention a font in it. The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 4, 1924) notes: "There was probably a chapel at Besford in 1086 served by that William the priest who held of the abbey of Westminster their 4 demesne hides. A reference to it occurs in 1186–90 as a dependent chapel of St. Andrew's, Pershore. [...] The chapel remained annexed to the vicarage of St. Andrew, Pershore, until 30 June 1865 [...] The old font, with octagonal bowl and stem of doubtful date, stands in the churchyard." Hartwell & Pevsner (2007) note: "Plain octagonal font (C14?); base by Brakspear." [i.e., Sir Harold Brakspear (1870-1934), architect and archaeologist].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 559508 5772659

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.101283, -2.1312

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 6′ 4.62″ N, 2° 7′ 52.32″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Brooks, Alan, Worcestershire, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 136
Miller, George [Revd.], The Parishes of the Diocese of Worcester, Birmingham: Hall & English, 1890, vol. 2: 215-216