Welland / Wenland / Wonlond

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view of church exterior - north view

Scene Description: the new church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 June 2008 by Bob Embleton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/845016] [accessed 2 October 2014]

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view of font

Scene Description: the 1870s font in the new church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 September 2013 by Bob Embleton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3654579] [accessed 2 October 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 16657WEL

Church/Chapel: [New] Parish Church of St. James [from the old church]

Church Patron Saints: St. James

Church Location: Drake Street, Welland, Worcestershire, WR13 6LP [NB: The Old Church was located at the end of Welland Court Lane, off Upton Road, about 2 km from the present church]

Country Name: England

Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located 10 km from Malvern, 24 km from Worcester

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester

Historical Region: Hundred of Oswaldslow [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Halfshire

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Date: ca. 1672?

Century and Period: 17th century, Restoration

Workshop/Group/Artisan: portable font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

We found no entry for Welland in the Domesday survey. Miller (1890) reports the church "was rebuilt 1762, and a tower added 1738", but the first recorded vicar is noted as "Johannes Clyve", and was in place before 1320; no mention of a font in it. Brooks & Pevsner (2007) report a "round font with deeply cut foliage dating from the 1870s". The Parish website [www.stjameschurchwelland.com/history.html] [accessed 9 June 2010] informs: "There has been a church of Saint James at Welland since 1300. The Old Church was situated at the end of Welland Court Lane [...] Due to an increase in the population of the village in the late 1800s and the deterioration of the Old Church, it was decided to look for another site [...] The work was commenced in 1873 [...] It was consecrated on 2nd April 1875 [...] in the vestry, a small stone travelling font from the 17th century and brought from the Old Church. [NB: we have no information on the font from the medieval church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.053502, -2.300374

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 3′ 12.61″ N, 2° 18′ 1.34″ W

UTM: 30U 547972 5767220

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2014-10-02 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

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