Dodderhill / Dodderhull / Dudrenhull / Dudrenhulla

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view of church exterior

Image Source: digital photograph taken by 8 July 2006 by Geoff Pick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/198725] [accessed 16 September 2014]

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view of church exterior in context

Source caption: "This picture of St Augustines, "The Church on the hill", is taken from the car-park opposite. Work started on the Norman Church around 1180 AD, the building being completed around 1220AD. The crossing and north transept are the only parts of the current building to date from this time. Its prominent position over looking Droitwich made it the dominant church in the area. During the Civil War this almost became its downfall. In 1646AD Parliamentarians were billeted in it, and during the Royalist attack the church was fired, exploding armaments destroyed the nave and south transept, severely damaging the rest of the building. In the early 18th century, the tower and south transept were rebuilt using the masonry from the damaged building. The tower was now located over, and as part of, the south transept. The building retains this extremely unusual T-shape and positioning of the tower today. In the late 20th Century a further change was made to the layout and a new extension built containing kitchen and toilet facilities."

Scene Description: Source caption: "This picture of St Augustines, "The Church on the hill", is taken from the car-park opposite. Work started on the Norman Church around 1180 AD, the building being completed around 1220AD. The crossing and north transept are the only parts of the current building to date from this time. Its prominent position over looking Droitwich made it the dominant church in the area. During the Civil War this almost became its downfall. In 1646AD Parliamentarians were billeted in it, and during the Royalist attack the church was fired, exploding armaments destroyed the nave and south transept, severely damaging the rest of the building. In the early 18th century, the tower and south transept were rebuilt using the masonry from the damaged building. The tower was now located over, and as part of, the south transept. The building retains this extremely unusual T-shape and positioning of the tower today. In the late 20th Century a further change was made to the layout and a new extension built containing kitchen and toilet facilities."

Image Source: digital photograph 4 November 2006 by Charles Ross [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/485056] [accessed 16 September 2014]

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view of font

Scene Description: the modern font at Dodderhill Church

Image Source: 1833 drawing by John Buckler, in the William Salt Library, Staffordshire Archive

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INFORMATION

FontID: 16585DOD

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Augustine?

Church Patron Saints: St. Augustine of Canterbury

Church Location: Dodderhill, Worcestershire WR9 0DD

Country Name: England

Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: The church -there is no village- is now in Droitwich, on the hill overlooking Droitwich Spa

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcetsre

Historical Region: Hundred of Halfshire

Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Late Norman? / Transitional?

Font Notes: Click to view

We found no entry for Dodderhill in the Domesday Survey. There is no font mentioned in Miller's entry (1890). The William Salt Library, Staffordshire Archive [www.archives.staffordshire.gov.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?&dsqIni=DserveV.ini&dsqApp=Archive2&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqSearch=(RefNo=='WA1/3/3/278')] [accessed 25 November 2007] lists and illustrates a 1833 drawing by John Buckler of a font at Dodderhill Church, Droitwich: "'Droitwich, Worcestershire. Font in Dodderhill Church.' Showing a vase-like font with a small bowl, a tapered shaft, and a circular base. 'J. Buckler.' 4 inches x 5.5 inches". The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 3, 1913) notes a church dedicated to St. Augustine, originally from the late 12th century, but does not mention a font, even though a font -probably a modern one- is shown in the interior plan of the church, located beneath the tower. Brooks & Pevsner (2007) note an "octagonal font, carved by H.. H. Martyn & Co. [NB: early-20th century London firm of architectural sculpture]. [NB: we have no information on the medieval font]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.28365, -2.124867

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 17′ 1.14″ N, 2° 7′ 29.52″ W

UTM: 30U 559697 5792948

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-05-26 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