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view of church exterior - southeast view
view of font and cover in context
INFORMATION
FontID: 16575CRO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Church Location: Main Street, Cropthorne, Worcestershire, WR10 3LU
Country Name: England
Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the B4084, S of the A44, 5 km SE of Pershore, NW of Evesham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester
Historical Region: Hundred of Oswaldslow
Date: ca. 1100?
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Medieval
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There is an entry for Cropthorne [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO9944/cropthorne/] [accessed 23 September 2014]; it reports a priest but does not mention a church, though there probably was one here. Miller (1890) notes "the chancel arch was formerly Norman", but mentions no font in this church. The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 3, 1913) notes an early church: "The earliest portion of the present building was begun about the year 1100, and appears to have been a rebuilding of an earlier structure", but reports a modern font in it. Noted in Brooks & Pevsner (2007): "Perp[endicular]-style, c. 1850." The modern font is of the popular Perpendicular design with carved panels on the octagonal basin, raised on an octagonal pedestal base; flat wooden cover probably of the same period. [NB: we have no information on the medieval font(s)]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.1045,
-2.0012
UTM: 30U 568181 5772806
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-05-25 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Brooks, Alan, Worcestershire, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2007
Miller, George [Revd.], The Parishes of the Diocese of Worcester, Birmingham: Hall & English, 1890