Queenhill / Chonhelme / Cumhille / Cvumhille / Queen Hill
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 January 2013 by Jonathan Billinger [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3310936] [accessed 30 September 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the font visible in the foreground, by the south doorway -- the basin is a modern replacement
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jonathan Billinger, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 January 2013 by Jonathan Billinger [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3310942] [accessed 30 September 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 16624QUE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas [aka St. Laurence, Holdfast]
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas [later (?) St. Lawrence]
Church Location: Queenhill, Worcestershire WR8 0RE
Country Name: England
Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the M50, NW of Tewkesbury [Coordinates: 52.0281, -2.2044] [Diocese of Worcester]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester
Historical Region: Hundred of Oswaldslow [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Halfshire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, S side
Century and Period: 12th century [base only], Medieval [composite]
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Queenhill [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO8636/queenhill/] [accessed 30 October 2014], neither of which reports a cleric or church in it. Miller (1890) writes about this church, "till lately a chapelry of Ripple [...] The basement of the font is old, the rest of it is new." The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 3, 1913) notes: "The church of St. Laurence, Queenhill, formerly dedicated in honour of St. Nicholas [...] It is probable that a church has stood on this site since the end of the 11th century [...] The church was thoroughly restored and repaired in 1854 [...] The bowl of the font is modern, but the cable-moulded circular base is probably of the 12th century." In Brooks & Pevsner (2007): "Neo-Norman font; C12 base with cable moulding."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.027905, -2.204589
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 1′ 40.46″ N, 2° 12′ 16.52″ W
UTM: 30U 554571 5764441
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-06-03 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