Wythall nr. Birmingham / Warthuil

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: EXT 1826 drawing by Peter Prattington in [http://wordpress.wythallchurch.net:8888/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/wythall_chapel_1826.jpg] [accessed 10 November 2014] No Known... EXT CHURCH B&W photograph in www.wythallchurch.net/?page_id=760 [accessed 10 November 2014] NO KNOwn... EXT NOW photograph in www.wythallchurch.net/?page_id=760 [accessed 10 November 2014] NO KNOwn...
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view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: B&W photograph in www.wythallchurch.net/?page_id=760 [accessed 10 November 2014]
Copyright Instructions: PD

view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wythal Parish Church, 2014
Image Source: photograph in www.wythallchurch.net/?page_id=760 [accessed 10 November 2014]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction – Fair Dealing

INFORMATION

FontID: 19497WYT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary [redundant; commercial building]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Shawhurst Lane, Wythall, West Midlands, B47 5JN
Country Name: England
Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 11 km S of Birmingham, now a suburb of it
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Birmingham
Historical Region: Hundred of Came [in Domesday]
Church Notes: declared redundant and closed for worship in 1986; later the property of a commercial firm of electrical contractors
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Wythall [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP0774/wythall/] [accessed 10 November 2014], and it reports a priest in it but no mention of a church , though there probably was one here. Miller (1890) notes Wythall was formerly "a chapelry of King's Norton, now a separate parish [...] one of five chapelries of Bromsgrove [...] rebuilt 1778", and again in 1882; Miller (ibid.) praises the "fine reredos" in this church but mention no font in it. A modern (?) font is described in www.wythallchurch.net/history/wasmc_growing_parish.htm [accessed 10 November 2014]: "Font at the West End, an octagon wooden bason on very short pillar resting on a brick base curbed with wood, the cover is old [...] At the south-west of the building is the main door, opening directly onto the south aisle - and the first place we see is the baptistry. The font, which came from St. Thomas and Emmanuel of Broad Street. Birmingham, has an oaken cover which was given in memory of the Rev. T. G. Faulkner (Vicar 1915-1933)". The entry in English Heritage [Listing NGR: SP0728374885] (1974) mentions nothing in this church prior to 1862.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.3712, -1.894203
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 22′ 16.32″ N, 1° 53′ 39.13″ W
UTM: 30U 575283 5802901

REFERENCES

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