Claines / Claynes / Cleines / Cleinesse / Cleynes / North Claines
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view of church exterior - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © P L Chadwick, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 December 2013 by P L Chadwick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3827706] [accessed 23 September 2014]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Angela Jones, 2001
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2001 by Angela Jones [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1161651] [accessed 23 September 2014]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Friends of Claines Church, 2007
Image Source: photograph [2007?] in the Friends of Claines Church website [http://www.clainesfriends.org.uk/flowers.html] [accessed 19 May 2010]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION [requested] NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 16551CLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Address: Claines Lane/Cornmeadow Lane, Claines, Worcestershire, WR3 7RN
Site Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located N of Worcester, and now in its outskirts
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester
Historical Region: Hundred of Oswaldslow
Additional Comments: disused font? / stoup? -- contacted web site asking for permission to repro photo [no reply Oct 2014]
Font Notes:
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We found no entry for Claines in the Domesday survey. Noake (1854) reports: "A new stone font stands at the west end of the church; and there is a basin on a pedestal standing by the north-west pillar of the chancel". The entry for Claines in Miller (1890) notes that the parish church "was formerly a chapelry [...] The chancel is of the 14th century [...] The font is modern." The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 3, 1913) notes: "The present church appears to have been entirely rebuilt in the early 15th century upon the site of an older building, some fragments of which, dating from the late 12th century", but it reports a small font placed at the southwest corner of the nave "in the first half of the 19th century". English Heritage [Listing NGR: SO8514558861] (1969) reports the font here as 19th-century. Brooks & Pevsner (2007) report "C15 tiles and a C13-C14 font bowl (or stoup)" in the north porch. [NB: the VCH (ibid.) mentions the tiles but not the medieval font/stoup]; this object is illustrated in the Friends of Claines Church [www.clainesfriends.org.uk/flowers.html] [accessed 19 May 2010] -- this same source illustrates the modern font, a polygonal basin with decorated panels, raised on a pedestal base.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 553346 5786576
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.227019, -2.218974
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 13′ 37.27″ N, 2° 13′ 8.3″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round, with angle bulges
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: appears to be plain, octagonal and flat
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. 227
- Miller, George [Revd.], The Parishes of the Diocese of Worcester, Birmingham: Hall & English, 1890, vol. 2: 97
- Noake, John, The rambler in Worcestershire, or, Stray notes on churches and congregations, Worcester: Published and sold by all booksellers, 1848, p. 104