Tardebigge / Taerdebicgan / Tarbecke / Tardebick / Tarbick / Terdeberie / Terdebigge / Terdefberie

There are two entries for Tardebigge [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO9969/tardebigge/] [accessed 22 September 2014], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Miller (1890) notes: "The font is modern, a memorial presented by the Bartleet family". The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 3, 1913) notes: "From the description in Nash's History of Worcestershire [...] it would appear that the former church dated back to the Norman period. The tower of this church fell in 1774, and so damaged the remainder of the building that the whole had to be taken down. [...] Nash gives the following account of the old church: 'The church was dedicated to St. Bartholomew, and is supposed to have been built soon after the Conquest. The most ancient part was a circular arch over the south door with hatched mouldings, and the supporting columns had the common rude Saxon capitals. [...] The advowson of the church of Tardebigge was included in the foundation charter of Bordesley Abbey [i.e., ca. 1140] [...] The church had been appropriated to the abbey and the vicarage ordained before 1245." The Open Churches Trust website notes: "There has been a church on this [...] site since 1138, however, the current church of St Bartholomew's was built in 1776 in sandstone from designs by the architect Francis Hiorne of Warwick, following the final collapse of the tower of the old church on September 3rd 1775. The old church was in fact partly in Worcestershire and partly in Warwickshire, but the new church was built slightly to the north, thus being entirely in Worcestershire. [...] The large ornate stone font is 19th century and was given to the church in memory of the Bartleet family." [NB: we have no information on the earlier font(s)]