Worcester No. 4 / 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 (1868) notes St. Andrew's as a church "once famous for its wealthy clothiers", mostly 15th-century, but its font was Norman. Miller (1890) reports a Norman font in the chiefly 15th-century church here; the first recorded vicar is given in Miller (ibid.) as "Reginald____ ... 1219". In the entry for the Church of All Saints, Worcester, The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 4, 1924) notes: "The chancel is of the late 12th century [...] The late 12th-century font is circular and moulded." Brooks & Pevsner (2007) report the presence there of "a plain round font from St Andrew, perhaps C12". English Hertage (1954) reports: "the medieval, probably C12 church was demolished after war damage. It now stands in a public garden, opened 1953 to commemorate the coronation of Elizabeth II. The original top of the spire stands in the same garden." The website for the parish of All Saints [www.allsaintsworcester.org.uk/about/history.htm] [accessed 9 June 2010] notes: "Old Font: (north-west corner) An early Norman font from St Andrew's Church. It has been much repaired and is no longer in use. The font cover came from St Alban's Church, and its carved acorn knob suggests a Jacobean date." [NB: All Saints' own font, is also noted in the same source as a "Stone and marble font of 1901, by R. Houghton]. [NB: the church itself was demolished after 1949, and only the old spire remains now in place]