Worcester No. 5 / Uueogorna / Vveogorna / Weogorna / Wigornia / Wirccester / Wirecestre
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view of church exterior - north view
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Alban's church is the oldest church in the city of Worcester and is easily missed when driving along Deansway. This former church is now the Maggs Day Centre for the homeless."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Halling, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 March 2010 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1746045] [accessed 30 October 2014]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 16584WOR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Alban [no longer a church]
Church Patron Saints: St. Alban [aka Albanus]
Church Location: Deansway / Fish St., Worcestershire
Country Name: England
Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on Deansway [formerly Fish Street]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester
Historical Region: Hundred of Fishborough
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman?
Church Notes: the former church was turned into a centre for the homeless [source: Brooks & Pevsner (2007: 709)]
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
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) reports a Norman font in the Church of St. Alban, on Fish Street, Worcester. Miller (1890) notes that the earliest part of the present fabric is late Norman, but, that the original church "is said to have been built by St. Egwin" [NB: according to the Catholic Encyclopedia [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05329a.htm] [accessed 30 October 2014] Egwin, 3rd bishop of Worcester, died ca. 720]; Miller (ibid.) gives the first recorded rector of this church as "Adam Priest ... 1092". The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 4, 1924) notes: "Two of the churches of Worcester, those of St. Helen and St. Alban, are recorded as early as the 11th century in a document of much interest. [...] The church [...] is very small, and has a nave and north aisle separated by an arcade with round 12th-century columns"; it mentions no font in it.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.190154,
-2.221279
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 11′ 24.55″ N,
2° 13′ 16.6″ W
UTM: 30U 553232 5782474
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2014-11-03 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Miller, George [Revd.], The Parishes of the Diocese of Worcester, Birmingham: Hall & English, 1890
Noake, John, Noake's Guide to Worcestershire: the complete text, London; Worcester: Longman and Co.; J. Noake, 1868