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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: "This church has been in the deanery of Kidderminster since the 13th Century. Tradition claims a Saxon church here. A priest of Wolverley is recorded in the Domesday Book (1086). A replacement church, then consisting of a new chancel and nave attached to the east side of a stone built tower of the earlier church, was consecrated on 20th September 1772."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Rogerson, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 February 2010 by Richard Rogerson [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1726856] [accessed 2 October 2014]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © St. John The Baptist Church Wolverley, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 December 2009 [www.stjohns-wolverley.org.uk/gallery/view-gallery.php/title/Inside+the+Church/] [accessed 2 October 2014
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INFORMATION
FontID: 16659WOL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Blakeshall Lane, Wolverley, Worcestershire DY11 5XD
Country Name: England
Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located near Bewdley. NW of Kidderminster
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester
Historical Region: Hundred of Cresslow [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Oswaldslow
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 17th century(late?) / 19th century, Restoration? / Victorian?
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Wolverley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO8279/wolverley/] [accessed 2 October 2014; it reports a priest and church lands in it without a mention a church, though there probably was one there. Miller (1890) reports: "The font is of the date of the Tudors, embellished with a Tudor rose." The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 3, 1913) notes: "There was a priest at Wolverley in 1086. [...] The church with its tithes and lands was given by Bishop Roger (1164–79) to the priory. [...] The present church [...] replaces an older one pulled down in 1769 [...] There is a pewter almsdish, and the bowl of the font is lined with the same material." English Heritage [Listing NGR: SO8288879317] (1958) reports a "Font in Gothick style" in this church. Brooks & Pevsner (2007) note: "Font. Gothic, hexagonal, concave-sided; probably late C17."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.41143, -2.253112
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 24′ 41.15″ N, 2° 15′ 11.2″ W
UTM: 30U 550803 5807063
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal
Drainage Notes: lined - pewter lining
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-06-09 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