Clent
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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]
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view of basin and cover
Scene Description: the 19th-century neo-Norman font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tudor Barlow, 2009
Image Source: detail of a 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
Font ID: 16561CLE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Leonard
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Leonard [earlier dedicated to St. Clement? / St. Michael?]
Church Address: St Leonard's Square, Clent, Worcestershire, DY9 9PN
Site Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Norman church here)
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 30U 560711 5807230
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.411922, -2.107423
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 24′ 42.92″ N, 2° 6′ 26.72″ W
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, [quoted in www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/WOR/Clent/index.html [accessed 21 May 2010]]
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Miller, George [Revd.], The Parishes of the Diocese of Worcester, Birmingham: Hall & English, 1890, vol. 2: 149