Romsley

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view of church exterior in context - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Kenelm's Church - viewed from the lychgate. The nave and chancel are 12th century. The Norman doorway on the south side is from around 1170. A doorway on the west side was blocked up at some point. The tower is late 15th century. The church was restored in 1845-46 by R C Hussey, and this included most internal detail, including the high-braced roof."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © P L Chadwick, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2010 by P L Chadwick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2046237] [accessed 10 November 2014]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the modern font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tudor Barlow, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2009 by Tudor Barlow [http://www.flickr.com/photos/tudorbarlow/3859255286/] [accessed 20 May 2010]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 16556ROM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Kenelm
Church Patron Saints: St. Kenelm [aka Cynehelm, Cynhelm, Kenelme]
Church Location: Chapel Lane, Romsley, Worcestershire, B62 0NG
Country Name: England
Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 6-7 km S of Halesowen [aka Hales Owen]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Noakes (1852) reports: "an octagonal stone font, ornamented with quatrefoils, and having a conical covering of wood, crocketted". Miller (1890) writes: "The chapel was, in the Middle Ages, visited by many pilgrims [...] The old chapel, now the church, carries marks of great antiquity in the rude sculpture over the south door, though whether it dates from Saxon times is doubtful"; no font mentioned in it. Brooks & Pevsner (2007) report a Perpendicular-style font introduced by R.C. Hussey in his 1846-1847 restoration of the originally Norman church. The CRSBI (2014) writes of this church: "The plan of the foundations of St Kenelm's chapel suggests that it was built on a pre-Conquest base." [NB: we have no information on its medieval font].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.424437, -2.083484
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 25′ 27.97″ N, 2° 5′ 0.54″ W
UTM: 30U 562322 5808642

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Brooks, Alan, Worcestershire, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2007
Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2014-11-10 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.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