Worcester No. 1 / Uueogorna / Vveogorna / Weogorna / Wigornia / Wirccester / Wirecestre

There are three entries for Worcester [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO8454/worcester/] [accessed 30 October 2014], neither of which mention cleric or church in it. Noake (1848) writes: "the old church of St Peter [..] The first mention of it in history is in the year 969, when Bishop Oswald [...] gave to Wulfgar, a collegiate priest, the church of St Peter 'by the south wall' [...] The present building was commenced in 1836 and completed in 1838. The old one was in a very ruinous state"; Noake (ibid.) gives the location of the font -presumably a modern one- at the west end of the nave. Miller (1890). also, notes the different buildings since the first (?) Saxon church in 675, the establishment of a bishopric here in 679, the destruction of the church buildings in Danish raids, etc., but no mention of a font in any of them. The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 3, 1913) notes: "The advowson of St. Peter's Church was granted to the convent of Pershore by John Poer in the first half of the 13th century. [...] The church of ST. PETER stands at the extreme south-east corner of the city upon the walls, and is a large barn-like structure of brick and stucco, erected about 1820. The old church consisted of chancel and nave with north and south aisles, and had a 15th-century tower at the north-west angle panelled in the Somerset manner." [NB: it is not clear whether the early chapel of Whittington mentioned in the VCH (ibid.) and later replaced by the 19th-century Church of St. Philip and St. James, had liturgical functions].