Baddesley Ensor / Bedeslei

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Scene Description: Source caption: "St Nicholas's Church, Baddesley Ensor. Surrounded by trees at Hill Top, Baddesley Ensor. It contains the Latimer Pulpit where the protestant martyr, Bishop Latimer, preached shortly before he was burnt at the stake in 1555."
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 April 2010 by Eirian Evans [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1785273] [accessed 1 December 2014]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 19543BAD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: Hill Top, Baddesley Ensor, Warwickshire CV9 2BQ
Country Name: England
Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the A5 [aka Watling Street], 5 km W of Atherstone
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Birmingham
Historical Region: Hundred of Coleshill [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Hemlingford
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
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There is an entry for Baddesley [Ensor] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP2798/baddesley-ensor/] [accessed 1 December 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 4, 1947) notes: "Baddesley Ensor was formerly in the parish of Polesworth and there was said to be there a chapel dedicated to St. Nicholas which belonged to Polesworth Nunnery [...] The parish church was rebuilt entirely on a new site in 1848, but the entry to a passage between cottages in Church Row, a little south of the church facing eastwards to the Common, has the reset round arch of a 12th-century doorway from the church; it has moulded zigzag ornament in yellow sandstone. Another 12th-century doorway was set up at Atherstone Church". The CRSBI (2014) updates the VCH information: "Prior to the 1960s the arch was situated above a passageway between cottages in Church Row, some distance away, and recorded by Pevsner in that position. (See [CRSBI] entry on Atherston for details of a complete doorway of three orders taken from the church at Baddesley Ensor when it was demolished)."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.578942, -1.545581
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 34′ 44.19″ N, 1° 32′ 44.09″ W
UTM: 30U 598551 5826426
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2014-12-01 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2014-12-01 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.