Northfield / Nordfeld
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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view of church exterior - northwest view
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INFORMATION
FontID: 19438NOR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Laurence [aka St. Lawrence's]
Church Location: 173 Church Road (corner Rectory Road & Church Hill), Northfield, West Midlands, B31 2LX
Country Name: England
Location: West Midlands, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Northfield was incorporated to Birmingham in 1911
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Birmingham
Historical Region: Hundred of Came -- fomerly Worcestershire/Warwickshire
Date: ca. 1170?
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Late Norman
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There is an entry for Northfield [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP0279/northfield/] [accessed 2 September 2014]; it reports a priest but there no mention of a church in it, though there probably was one here. Miller (1890) reports "remains of a Norman doorway on the north side" and a modern font in the church here. The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 3, 1913) notes: "The church of Northfield was granted to the priory of Dudley by Gervase Paynel when he founded the house about 1160 [...] The earliest part of the existing building is the north doorway, of about 1170, which with two carved heads, inserted in the south face of the tower, formed part of a 12th-century church. [...] The round-headed north door dates from about 1170 and has been reset in the modern aisle wall." The preent font is modern, an octagonal basin with floral motifs in quatrefoils on the sides, on an octagonal stem with niches on the sides, and a graded lower base; probably 19th-century.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.4121,
-1.9641
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 24′ 43.56″ N,
1° 57′ 50.76″ W
UTM: 30U 570459 5807380
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2014-09-22 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Miller, George [Revd.], The Parishes of the Diocese of Worcester, Birmingham: Hall & English, 1890