Droitwich No. 2 / Wich / Wiche
Results: 3 records
view of church exterior - west façade
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Halling, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 Septemeber 2013 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3651445] [accessed 16 September 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrew Darge, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 June 2006 by Andrew Darge [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/189593] [accessed 16 September 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 16588DRO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century, Restoration / Jacobean
Cognate Fonts: the font at St. Andrew's, also in Droitwich
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter de Witton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: St Peter's Church Lane, Droitwich, Worcestershire, WR9 7AN -- Tel.: +44 1905 794952
Site Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 8-9 km NE of Worcester. The church is on St. Peter's Church Lane, W of the Gaudet Luce Golf Club
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester
Historical Region: Hundred of Clent
Font Notes:
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There are eleven entries for Droitwich [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO8963/droitwich/] [accessed 16 September 2014], it being spread over seven counties, from Worcestershire through Oxfordshire; only one of the eleven entries, the holding for which Leofnoth the priest was lord, reports a priest in it but there is no mention of a church, though there probably was one there. A font here is noted in Brooks & Pevsner (2007): "Font. Jacobean, with square stem and goble bowl; elementary geometrical motifs inspired by Norman work (cf. St. Andrew)."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 558355 5790265
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.259678, -2.145
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 15′ 34.84″ N, 2° 8′ 42″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Brooks, Alan, Worcestershire, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 263, 264