Kyre / Chure / Cuea / Cuer / Cure / Cure Wyard / Curwyard / Cuyrewyard / Great Kyre / Kyare / Kyer / Kyre Magna / Kyre Wyard / Kyrewyarde / Kyrewiare

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view of church exterior - east view

Font image
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2006 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/224307] [accessed 24 October 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west

the font and cover are partially visible at the back [west], left [south] side
Scene Description: the font and cover are partially visible at the back [west], left [south] side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Halling, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 November 2013 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3769369] [accessed 24 October 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

Font ID: 16607KYR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century [basin only], Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the SW corner of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Kyre Park, Kyre Wyard, Worcestershire WR15 8RW
Site Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B4214, SW of Tenbury Wells, near the Herefordshire border
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester
Historical Region: Hundred of Doddingtree
Additional Comments: altered font (chipped surface [cf. FontNotes])
Font Notes:
There are three entries for [Little] Kyre and Kyre [Magna] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/XX0000/little-kyre-and-kyre-magna/] [accessed 24 October 2014], neither of which mentions a cleric or church in it. Miller (1890) notes the church as "chiefly of the 13th century", but mentions no font in it. The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 4, 1924) notes: "Kyre was originally a chapel of Tenbury [...] The nave and chancel date from the early years of the 12th century and are remarkable in being built out of line with each other, the chancel inclining considerably to the north. [...] The font has a plain circular cup-shaped bowl, which probably dates from the 12th century, but the face has been considerably chipped; the round stem and square base are probably modern. In Brooks & Pevsner (2007): "Small round bowl with short stem, probably C13." Little Kyre was a hamlet of Magna Kyre without a noted church in it.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 530803 5791005
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.268561, -2.548601
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 16′ 6.82″ N, 2° 32′ 54.97″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

  • Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
  • Brooks, Alan, Worcestershire, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 422
  • Miller, George [Revd.], The Parishes of the Diocese of Worcester, Birmingham: Hall & English, 1890, vol. 2: 305