Evesham No. 2 / Cronuchome / Eovesham / Haum / Hetheholme / Homme

Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2019
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 1 March 2019)
Results: 15 records
angel - cherub - head - 8
design element - motifs - floral - varied
design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 16
information
view of basin and cover
view of church exterior - northeast view
view of church exterior - south view
view of church exterior - west view
view of font

Scene Description: notice the damage to the upper rim and the weathering of the whole font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 August 2018 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 1 March 2019)
view of font
view of font
view of font and cover
view of font and cover in context
INFORMATION
FontID: 16591EVE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Lawrence [redundant since 1977]
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence] [formerly dedicated to St. Asaph]
Church Location: Abbey Mews, Evesham, Worcestershire WR11 4RW
Country Name: England
Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located at the junction of the A44-A4184, 20-25 km SE of Worcester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester
Historical Region: Hundred of Fishborough [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Blackenhurst
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church Notes: this church and the neighbouring All Saints' built by the Benedictine monks of Evesham Abbey in the 12thC
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There is an entry for Evesham in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP0343/evesham/] [accessed 4 November 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Miller (1890) writes that the churches of All Saints and St. Lawrence share the same churchyard; of St. Lawrence's he notes the 15th-century tower and spire, but, by the 18th century "this church was almost in ruins [...] the site was used as a burying place for those who died of small-pox. The church was restored and the nave re-roofed in 1837"; he does not mention a font in it. Brooks & Pevsner (2007) report two fonts in this church: the original Perpendicular font that had been replaced by a 19th-century copy; the copy, by Harvey Eginton. The much-damaged original font consists of an octagonal basin, the narrow sides panelled with pairs of quatrefoils; on an octagonal pedestal base with traceried sides, and an octagonal pedestal with moulded buttresses; re-located in the south aisle, near the entranceway. The Victorian copy, topped with a wooden cover with four vertical ribs and a small cross-finial is now [2010] located in a south chapel.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.0914,
-1.9476
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 5′ 29.04″ N,
1° 56′ 51.36″ W
UTM: 30U 572100 5771727
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
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