Didcot nr. Beckford
INFORMATION
Font ID: 21974DID
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Chapel of ease [demolished 17thC]
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Church Address: [NB: address and coordinates are the closest available for the former chapel site] Didcot Farm, Beckford Rd, Dumbleton, Evesham WR11 7QW, UK [cf. Geo Directions]
Site Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Now only a farm remains, located just E of Beckford, 10-11 km NE of Tewkesbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Tewkesbury -- formerly Gloucestershire
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the medieval chapel-at-ease here)
Font Notes:
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No individual entry found for this Didcot in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SP0035/didcot/] [accessed 5 February 2019].
The entry for the parish of Beckford in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 8, 1968) notes: "Didcot lay in Tewkesbury hundred. [...] A chapel at Didcot belonged to Tewkesbury Abbey; it passed with the Didcot estate to the Tracy family but had probably been disused since the depopulation of the hamlet." [NB: one source suggests the ruins of the chapel were re-built as a cottage ikn the 17th century].
The entry for the parish of Beckford in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 8, 1968) notes: "Didcot lay in Tewkesbury hundred. [...] A chapel at Didcot belonged to Tewkesbury Abbey; it passed with the Didcot estate to the Tracy family but had probably been disused since the depopulation of the hamlet." [NB: one source suggests the ruins of the chapel were re-built as a cottage ikn the 17th century].
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.