Elmbridge / Elmerige
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Halling, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 March 2006 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/136415] [accessed 6 November 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Whatley, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 March 2010 by Peter Whatley [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1768304] [accessed 6 November 2014]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © sally_parishmouse, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2005 by sally_parishmouse [http://www.flickr.com/photos/89713067@N00/199226772] [accessed 26 May 2010]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 16586ELM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Elmbridge, Worcestershire, WR9 0DA
Country Name: England
Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 3 km NE of Dodderhill, near Droitwich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester
Historical Region: Hundred of Clent [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Halfshire
Date: ca. 1200?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
There is an entry for Elmbridge [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO9067/elmbridge/] [accessed 6 November 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Miller (1890) writes: "This was till lately a chapelry of Dodderhill; now it is formed into a separate parish"; he notes "Norman features in thic church", but mentions no font in it. The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 3, 1913) notes a church originally from ca. 1200 but "entirely rebuilt in 1872"; a modern font is reported in it. Brooks & Pevsner (2007) report a modern font "carved by William Forsyth". The modern font consists of a square basin with chamfered angles that make it octagonal; the broad sides have carved panels with biblical scenes, the narrow sides floral motifs; moulded underbowl chamfer; on a broad central shaft and four angle colonnettes, all with moulded capitals and bases; round plinth. Flat wooden cover of the same shape as the basin top; carved upper surface; modern as well [NB: we have no information on the font from the ca. 1200 church here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.3084,
-2.14868
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 18′ 30.24″ N,
2° 8′ 55.25″ W
UTM: 30U 558041 5795681
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Brooks, Alan, Worcestershire, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2007
Miller, George [Revd.], The Parishes of the Diocese of Worcester, Birmingham: Hall & English, 1890
