Clent
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view of basin and cover
Scene Description: the 19th-century neo-Norman font
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the 19th-century neo-Norman 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/3878047794/] [accessed 21 May 2010]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 16561CLE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Leonard
Church Patron Saints: St. Leonard [earlier dedicated to St. Clement? / St. Michael?]
Church Location: St Leonard's Square, Clent, Worcestershire, DY9 9PN
Country Name: England
Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 6 km S of Stourbridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester
Historical Region: Hundred of Clent [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Halfshire -- formerly in Staffordshire
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
There are two entries for Clent in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO9279/clent/] [accessed 11 September 2014], neither of which mentions a cleric or church in it. Miller (1890), who gives the dedication of this church to St. Michael, reports "Norman features" in this church but mentions no font in it. The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 3, 1913) remarks on the medieval church being expanded in 1170, but does not mention a font. The National Gazetteer of 1868 gives the dedication of the church as St. Clement. Brooks & Pevsner (2007) note a neo-Norman font dating from the 1864-1865 renovation of the church. [NB: we have no information on the medieval font]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.411922,
-2.107423
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 24′ 42.92″ N,
2° 6′ 26.72″ W
UTM: 30U 560711 5807230
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: square and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; probably of the 19th-century as well
REFERENCES
The National Gazetteer: a Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles, London: Virtue & Co., 1868
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-05-21 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Miller, George [Revd.], The Parishes of the Diocese of Worcester, Birmingham: Hall & English, 1890
