Worcester No. 6 / Uueogorna / Vveogorna / Weogorna / Wigornia / Wirccester / Wirecestre
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Scene Description: the modern font by G.F. Bodley, 1891
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Scene Description: the modern font by G.F. Bodley, 1891
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jim Linwood, 2010
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Scene Description: the modern font by G.F. Bodley, 1891
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Scene Description: the modern font by G.F. Bodley, 1891
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Scene Description: the modern font by G.F. Bodley, 1891
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Scene Description: the modern font by G.F. Bodley, 1891 -- the back of the cover; the opening leaves are on the opposite side
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Scene Description: the modern font by G.F. Bodley, 1891 -- showing the font and the lower part of the cover
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Scene Description: the modern font by G.F. Bodley, 1891 -- the open cover
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2018
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view of font cover - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 August 2018 by Colin Smith
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view of font cover - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 August 2018 by Colin Smith
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INFORMATION
FontID: 16660WOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: Jesus Christ & St. Mary
Church Location: Worcester WR1 2LA, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester
Historical Region: Hundred of Worcester
Century and Period: 10th century (?), Pre-Conquest
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and modern font
Church Notes: priory church founded here in 680; the crypt of the present church is the earliest remain of the 10thC church that replaced the original that had been burnt down by the Danes; the new building was started in 1084
Font Notes:
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There are three entries for Worcester [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO8454/worcester/] [accessed 30 October 2014], neither of which mention cleric or church in it. The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 4, 1924) gives information on the different buildings of the cathedral and notes: "The church is particularly poor in any fittings. [...] The font stood, in the 18th century, against the second pillar on the south, but was destroyed about 1748, when a new one of marble was placed in the midst of the Jesus chapel; this in turn has been discarded and a still newer one placed in the westernmost bay of the south aisle." A modern font here is noted in Brooks ( Pevsner (2007): "Font. By. G.F. Bodley, 1891. Sandstone, octagonal, ogee niches with angels. Immensely tall pinnacled cover reaching to the vault (cf. Bodley's at Southwark Cathedral)." [NB: the Southwark Cathedral cover is a grand tall affair with statues, pinnacles, etc.; the font at Southwark is octagonal and modern, in dark green marble]. The modern font is of the continued-shape type, with out distinction of basin and base, with standing angels holding shields under pinnacled arches; on an octagonal plinth. The cover does not raise; the lower level opens four of the eight leaves, to show the painted and gilded inside and provide access to the inner basin. [NB: the original church here dates at least from the 10th century, but we have no information on the early fonts]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.188889, -2.220833
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 11′ 20″ N, 2° 13′ 15″ W
UTM: 30U 553264 5782333
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no; rim-buffet type
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2014-11-03 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Brooks, Alan, Worcestershire, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2007