Little Comberton / Cumberton Minor / Cumberton Parva / Cumbrincgtune / Cumbrintune / Cumbrittone / Cvmbrintvne / Magna Cumbrintone / Major Cumberton

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symbol - cross

Scene Description: a modern addition [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 August 2010 by Rex Harris [www.flickr.com/photos/sheepdog_rex/4863031452/] [accessed 7 October 2014]

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view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 October 2012 by Les Hull [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3235583] [accessed 7 October 2014]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Little Comberton church and Rectory viewed from the footpath to the south-east."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 March 2008 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/742663] [accessed 7 October 2014]

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 16596COM

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: Manor Lane, Little Comberton, Worcestershire WR10 3ER

Country Name: England

Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located 2-3 km SE of Pershore

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester

Historical Region: Hundred of Pershore

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th century, Medieval [altered]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for [Great and Little] Combertone [varian spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/XX0000/great-and-little-comberton/] [accessed 7 October 2014]; one of them, in the lordship of Gilbert, son of Turold, reports a priest in it. The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 4, 1924) notes: "The church was first mentioned in 1283 when the advowson belonged to William Fitz Warin. [...] The 12th-century church appears to have consisted of a nave and chancel of the same size as the existing ones, and of these the north nave wall and the base of the south chancel wall are still standing. [...] The font has a circular stem and a plain octagonal bowl with a modern cross cut in one face." English Heritage (1965) reports: "The C15 octagonal font is on a round stem". Not mentioned in Brooks & Pevsner (2007). The basin is cracked through at the underbowl; the lower base and plinth are modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.08085, -2.05249

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 4′ 51.06″ N, 2° 3′ 8.96″ W

UTM: 30U 564929 5770454

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; appears modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-05-26 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.