Worcester No. 5 / Uueogorna / Vveogorna / Weogorna / Wigornia / Wirccester / Wirecestre
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view of church exterior - north view
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Image Source: digital photograph [edited] taken 27 January 2011 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2276381] [accessed 30 October 2014]
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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
Font ID: 16584WOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Alban [no longer a church]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Alban [aka Albanus]
Church Notes: the former church was turned into a centre for the homeless [source: Brooks & Pevsner (2007: 709)]
Church Address: Deansway / Fish St., Worcestershire
Site Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on Deansway [formerly Fish Street]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester
Historical Region: Hundred of Fishborough
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 30U 553232 5782474
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.190154, -2.221279
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 11′ 24.55″ N, 2° 13′ 16.6″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
REFERENCES
- 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: 282
- Noake, John, Noake's Guide to Worcestershire: the complete text, London; Worcester: Longman and Co.; J. Noake, 1868, p. 364