Doverdale / Doferdæl / Doferdael / Douredela / Doveresdale / Dovidale / Lvnvredele / Lunuredele

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "A pretty little church with some lovely ornate wooden screening in the bell tower and the remains of a chimney on the side building."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Stowell, 2006

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2006 by David Stowell [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/227960] [accessed 16 September 2014]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the modern font

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 May 2010 by Tudor Barlow [http://www.flickr.com/photos/tudorbarlow/4639092801/] [accessed 26 May 2010]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 16587DOV
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Doverdale Lane, Doverdale, Worcestershire, WR9 0QB
Country Name: England
Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located NW of Droitwich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester
Historical Region: Hundred of Cresslow
Century and Period: 11th century (late?), Norman
There is an entry for Doverdale [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO8666/doverdale/] [accessed 16 September 2014], and it reports a priest and a church in it. Miller (1890) notes the church of Norman times restored in 1858; no font mentioned in Miller. The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 3, 1913) notes: "There were a church and priest at Doverdale at the time of the Domesday Survey", but reports a modern font in the medieval church. Brooks & Pevsner (2007) remark on the furnishings by Preedy, of his 1858-1859 renovation. Plain polygonal basin raised on a plain cylindrical pedestal base and a moulded round lower base. Wooden cover is an octagonal spire with panelled sides and foliated finial; appears modern. [NB: we have no information on the medieval font]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.291951, -2.206685
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 17′ 31.03″ N, 2° 12′ 24.07″ W
UTM: 30U 554106 5793807

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: tallish octagonal pyramid, with floral finial

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