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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: the 1771 church re-building

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 March 2008 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/720185] [accessed 30 September 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 19453WOR
Church/Chapel: Old St. Martin's in the Cornmarket
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: The Cornmarket, Queen Street, Worcester, Worcestershire, WR1 2PL
Country Name: England
Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: The old church was located where the present building now is, in the Cornmarket, the E of Worcester town centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester
Historical Region: Hundred of Oswaldslow
Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest
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. Miller (1890) notes the re-building of this church in 1772, and has no information on the old church here other that the name and date of the first recorded rector, "Richard Parson ... 1219". The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 3, 1913) notes: "It is possible that St. Martin was the church mentioned among the boundaries of Perry in the charter of Bishop Wulfstan" [NB: probably Wulfstan II, the pre-Conquest bishop of Worcester who retained his office under William]; the medieval church, continues the VCH (ibid.): "was rebuilt in red brick with stone dressings in 1771 from the designs of Anthony Keck [...] The fittings are old, but the seats, font and east window are recent." [NB: we have no information on the font of the early church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.192586, -2.218804
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 11′ 33.31″ N, 2° 13′ 7.69″ W
UTM: 30U 553399 5782746

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2014-09-30 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Miller, George [Revd.], The Parishes of the Diocese of Worcester, Birmingham: Hall & English, 1890