Hanley Castle / Hanlea / Hanlega / Hanlege / Hanlegh / Hanlegam / Hanlie / Potters' Hanley

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design element - motifs - floral - rosette - in a quatrefoil - 16

Scene Description: in pairs on the basin sides

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 September 2011 by Aidam McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/6542357507/] [accessed 8 Octorber 2014]

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design element - motifs - floral - varied - 16

Scene Description: in pairs, on the sides of the underbowl chamfer; chiefly square flowers

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: two pronounced parallel mouldings frame the floral-in-a-quatrefoil motifs; parts of these mouldings are damaged [cf. FontNotes]

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Scene Description: a number of thin parallel mouldings down the sides of the underbowl

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 April 2008 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/785242] [accessed 8 October 2014]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 April 2007 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/391629] [accessed 8 October 2014]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: "The 15th century font remains at the west end"

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INFORMATION

FontID: 16600HAN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Church End, Hanley Castle, Worcestershire, WR8 0BL

Country Name: England

Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the B4211, S of Worcester [Coordinates: 52° 4′ 39.85″ N, 2° 14′ 3.58″ W 52.077735, -2.23432]

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester

Historical Region: Hundred of Tewkesbury [in Domesday -- Hundred of Pershore -- Gloucestershire / Herefordshire

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 14th century, Early Perpendicular

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for [Hanley [Castle] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO8341/hanley-castle/] [accessed 8 October 2014], but neither mentions cleric or church in it. Miller (1890) notes: "The south doorway is Norman [...] The font is octagonal, with 2 quatrefoils on the sides". The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 4, 1924) notes: "The high altar in the church of Hanley was dedicated by the Bishop of Worcester in 1290. [...] The oldest part of the structure is the head of the south doorway, which is the upper part of an arch of 12th-century date, but no other portion of the fabric is of this period, and the Norman church appears to have been entirely rebuilt in the 14th century, to which period the nave and its aisle belong. [...] The font is of 14th-century date and consists of a moulded octagonal bowl with two quatrefoils inclosing four-leaved flowers on each side. The lower moulding has been destroyed on three sides." The churches of St. Gabriel (Hanley Green / Hanley Swan) and St. Peter (Malvern Wells) are 19th-century.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.075225, -2.236467

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 4′ 30.81″ N, 2° 14′ 11.28″ W

UTM: 30U 552329 5769680

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, plain 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.

Brooks, Alan, Worcestershire, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2007

Miller, George [Revd.], The Parishes of the Diocese of Worcester, Birmingham: Hall & English, 1890