Worcester No. 13 / Uueogorna / Vveogorna / Weogorna / Wigornia / Wirccester / Wirecestre
Image copyright © Bob Embleton, 2006
CC-BY-SA-2.0
Results: 4 records
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."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bob Embleton, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 August 2006 by Bob Embleton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/217959] [accessed 3 November 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © P L Chadwick, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 December 2012 by P L Chadwick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3244974] [accessed 3 November 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
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."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © P L Chadwick, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 December 2012 by P L Chadwick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3244970] [accessed 3 November 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the 18thC (?) font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aidan McRae Thomson, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 May 2011 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/5942576850/] [accessed 3 November 2014]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 19484WOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Date: ca. 1126?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (early?), Late Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Swithin [aka St. Swithun's] [redundant]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Swithun [aka Swithin]
Church Address: 3 Church Street, Worcester WR1 3ND
Site Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester
Historical Region: Hundred of Oswaldslaw
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original ca.1126 church here)
Font Notes:
Click to view
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
UTM: 30U 553303 5782747
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.1926, -2.2202
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 11′ 33.36″ N, 2° 13′ 12.72″ W
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Miller, George [Revd.], The Parishes of the Diocese of Worcester, Birmingham: Hall & English, 1890, vol. 2: 288-289