Moseley / Museleie

There is an entry for this Moseley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP0783/moseley/] [accessed 18 September 2014]; it reports a priest but does not mention a church in it, though there probably was one there. The entry for the church at Moseley in Miller (1890), however, reports "an old tower, built 5 Henry VIII" [5th year of Henry VIII, i.e., 1514]. The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 3, 1913) notes: "The chapel of St. Mary Moseley was built by the parishioners of King's Norton because the parish was 'seven miles broad every way & 40 miles compass,' and many of the inhabitants lived 4 miles from the parish church. [...] In 1405 licence was given to the parishioners of Bromsgrove who lived near King's Norton to attend mass in the chapel of St. Mary, Moseley. [...] The chapel apparently continued to be used [...] and a brief for rebuilding was issued in 1780. [...] Moseley was formed into a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1853". This former chapel has many indications of having been a chapel-of-ease with parochial functions and, therefore, must have had a baptismal font early on. The English Heritage entry for this church [Listing NGR: SP0780883166] (1952) mentions no font in it. Unconfirmed source mentions a new font added in the Thomas Rickman restoration of thr 1820s, a basin made of plaster affixed to the west wall. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original church here].