Ribbesford / Ribeford / Rybbesford

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view of church exterior - north porch

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view of church exterior - north portal

Source caption: "Pevsner wrote in 1968: "The north doorway has very involved capitals with beaded interlace. To the left is a panel with a bird (a Herefordshire motif). The abaci have chequer and zigzag patterns, the arch a roll moulding. Tympanum with an archer and two quadrupeds.""
Scene Description: Source caption: "Pevsner wrote in 1968: "The north doorway has very involved capitals with beaded interlace. To the left is a panel with a bird (a Herefordshire motif). The abaci have chequer and zigzag patterns, the arch a roll moulding. Tympanum with an archer and two quadrupeds.""
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tiger, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2011 by Tiger [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3975803] [accessed 27 October 2014]
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view of church exterior - northeast view

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view of church exterior - south portal

Source caption: "This doorway was blocked at the time the church was rebuilt in 1878/9. There was originally a porch here, but because it was in a ruinous state, it was removed when the door was blocked."
Scene Description: Source caption: "This doorway was blocked at the time the church was rebuilt in 1878/9. There was originally a porch here, but because it was in a ruinous state, it was removed when the door was blocked."
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view of church exterior - south portal - detail

Source caption: "These carvings appear on the column on the right of the blocked door, on the church's south side. These are thought to be Norman, and probably have been re-used from another part of the church. There are also carvings on the door's other column, but they are so weathered that it is difficult to make out any real detail."
Scene Description: Source caption: "These carvings appear on the column on the right of the blocked door, on the church's south side. These are thought to be Norman, and probably have been re-used from another part of the church. There are also carvings on the door's other column, but they are so weathered that it is difficult to make out any real detail."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © P L Chadwick, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 December, 2008 by P L Chadwick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1462359] [accessed 27 October 2014]
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view of church exterior - west portal

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 December, 2008 by P L Chadwick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1462012] [accessed 27 October 2014]
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view of church exterior - west view

Source caption: "Like many old churches, different parts dates from different centuries. The original was Norman, but there are many later parts, and much rebuilding took place in the Victorian era, following a lightning strike in 1877."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Like many old churches, different parts dates from different centuries. The original was Norman, but there are many later parts, and much rebuilding took place in the Victorian era, following a lightning strike in 1877."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © P L Chadwick, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 December, 2008 by P L Chadwick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1461988] [accessed 27 October 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © P L Chadwick, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 December, 2008 by P L Chadwick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1462026] [accessed 27 October 2014]
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view of font and cover

Source caption: "The font is a diapered square bowl by Thomas Gordon, dating from 1886. It was carved by Martyn & Emms."
Scene Description: Source caption: "The font is a diapered square bowl by Thomas Gordon, dating from 1886. It was carved by Martyn & Emms."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © P L Chadwick, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 December, 2008 by P L Chadwick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1463097] [accessed 27 October 2014]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 16628RIB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Leonard
Church Patron Saints: St. Leonard
Church Location: Ribbesford, Worcestershire, DY12 2TQ
Country Name: England
Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located S of Bewdley, WSW of Kidderminster
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester
Historical Region: Hundred of Doddingtree
Date: ca. 1100?
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Ribbesford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO7874/ribbesford/] [accessed 27 October 2014], but neither mentions cleric nor church in it. Ribbesford is not mentioned in Miller (1890). The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 4, 1924) notes: "The present north aisle probably covers the area of a small church built here about 1100, the only parts of which now left are the western half of the north wall, the south doorway reset in the south wall of the south aisle, and some carved fragments re-used in the modern masonry", but reports that the font, shown at the west end of the north aisle, in the interior plan of the church, is modern. Brooks & Pevsner (2007) inform the nfont is "by Thomas Gordon, 1886; diapered square bowl, carved by Martyn & Emms". [NB: we have no information on the medieval font]. [NB: the nearby church of Bewdley St. Anne's has a modern font as well]. [NB: the National Archives (UK) [ref.: [no title] 850BEWDLEY/8377/20/ii 19th-20th centuries] contain: "Photograph, 2 letters, newspaper cutting and other papers relating to presentation by Ribbesford Church of a font to the Chapel of St. James the Less in Demerara in the Diocese of Guiana. 1889" -- we have no information on whether the donated font was ancient or modern, presumably the latter]. The modern font at Ribbesford St. Leonard's was located at the west end of the north aisle ca. 1924.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.363811, -2.31584
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 21′ 49.72″ N, 2° 18′ 57.02″ W
UTM: 30U 546586 5801724

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-06-04 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Brooks, Alan, Worcestershire, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2007