Hallow / Halhegan / Hallhagan / Hallag / Hallawe / Hallaye / Halnegan / Heallingan / Hollow / North Hallow
INFORMATION
FontID: 16599HAL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Philip and St. James [formerly a chapel of Grimley]
Church Patron Saints: St. Philip & St. James
Church Location: Hallow Road, Hallow, Worcestershire, WR2 6PW
Country Name: England
Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on the A443, 5 km NW of Worcester, now part of it
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester
Historical Region: Hundred of Oswaldslow
Century and Period: , Medieval
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There is an entry for Hallow [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO8258/hallow/] [accessed 24 September 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Miller (1890) notes that this church, formerly a chapelry of Grimley, "was entirely rebuilt in 1869 [...] the font is modern". The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 3, 1913) notes: "Hallow was a chapelry annexed to the church of Grimley [...] until 1876, when it was constituted a separate vicarage, [...] in the gift of the Bishop of Worcester. [...] The church was built in 1869 [...] The original building, [...] was destroyed in 1830"; the VCH does not mention a font. Brooks & Pevsner (2007) report two fonts in this church: the one from the new church is described as a "Striking octagonal font, executed by William Forsyth; again richly carved, with strips of green marble inlaid with lilies of the valley". The second font: "Outside the porch, a plain font, octagonal bowl with tall stem, no doubt c. 1830, from the previous church." [NB: we have no information on the original font from the destroyed church]
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