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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "One of Worcester's eight ancient parish churches, but completely rebuilt in the 1730s. It is first mentioned in a written record in 1126. Taken from the junction of The Shambles, St. Swithin's Street, Mealcheapen Street, and Trinity Street."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 August 2006 by Bob Embleton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/217959] [accessed 3 November 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "The church although still consecrated is only used occasionally for religious services. Since 1977 it has been in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust, a registered charity."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 December 2012 by P L Chadwick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3244970] [accessed 3 November 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 December 2012 by P L Chadwick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3244974] [accessed 3 November 2014]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the 18thC (?) font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 May 2011 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/5942576850/] [accessed 3 November 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 19484WOR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Swithin [aka St. Swithun's] [redundant]

Church Patron Saints: St. Swithun [aka Swithin]

Church Location: 3 Church Street, Worcester WR1 3ND

Country Name: England

Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester

Historical Region: Hundred of Oswaldslaw

Date: ca. 1126?

Century and Period: 12th century (early?), Late Romanesque

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Miller (1890) reports a modern font in this church re-built in 1736; the first recorded rector here is given as "John Capellanus ... 1240". The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 4, 1924) notes: "The advowson of the church of St. Swithun was given by Bishop Simon (1125–50) to the prior and convent, on the petition of Eudes, the dean on whose land it had been built. [...] The church of ST. SWITHUN is at the west end of Mealcheapen Street, and was rebuilt in stone about 1736 [...] The font was restored in 1914." The original church appears to have been founded, therefore, in the early 12th century; nothing of the earlier building survived the 18th-century re-building except the 15th-century tower. English Heritage (1954) reports a "White marble font a bowl on stem"; modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.1926, -2.2202

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 11′ 33.36″ N, 2° 13′ 12.72″ W

UTM: 30U 553303 5782747

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2014-11-03 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Miller, George [Revd.], The Parishes of the Diocese of Worcester, Birmingham: Hall & English, 1890