Gloucester No. 1 / Glouuecestre / Glowecestre

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 July 2000 by BSI

Apostle or saint - standing - holding book - unidentified

Scene Description: unidentified saint

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 17 August 2013 by Juan Antonio Olañeta for BSI

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 29 August 2013)

Christ - Christ in Majesty?

Scene Description: seated figure holding book in the left hand; Christ? Apostle?

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 17 August 2013 by Juan Antonio Olañeta for BSI

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 29 August 2013)

design element - architectural - arcade - round arches

Scene Description: all around the basin; scalloped, dotted, chevroned arches on chevroned or dotted columns

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2013 by Juan Antonio Olañeta for BSI

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 29 August 2013)

design element - motifs - floral and foliage

Scene Description: assorted motifs forming a band around the upper basin sides

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 17 August 2013 by Juan Antonio Olañeta for BSI

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 29 August 2013)

design element - motifs - vine - acanthus

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 17 August 2013 by Juan Antonio Olañeta for BSI

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 29 August 2013)

inscription

Scene Description: the ca. 1890 inscription on the inside reinforcement ring

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 July 2000 by BSI

inscription

Scene Description: the ca. 1890 inscription on the inside reinforcement ring

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 July 2000 by BSI

inscription

Scene Description: the ca. 1890 inscription on the inside reinforcement ring

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 July 2000 by BSI

inscription

Scene Description: the ca. 1890 inscription on the inside reinforcement ring

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 July 2000 by BSI

view of basin

Image Source: illustration by J. Basire and Sarah Ormerod in Ormerod (1842)

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view of basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes January 2008

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 December 2011 by Peter Austin [www.flickr.com/photos/53366513@N00/6517480503/in/photostream] [accessed 15 December 2011

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: one of the scrolled acanthus vines

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 17 August 2013 by Juan Antonio Olañeta for BSI

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 29 August 2013)

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: another of the scrolled acanthus vines

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 17 August 2013 by Juan Antonio Olañeta for BSI

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 29 August 2013)

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: one of the motifs in the spandrels of the arcade; notice also the pattern on the arch and the capital

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 17 August 2013 by Juan Antonio Olañeta for BSI

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 29 August 2013)

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: one of the motifs in the spandrels of the arcade; notice also the pattern on the arch-head and the capital

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 17 August 2013 by Juan Antonio Olañeta for BSI

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 29 August 2013)

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: one of the motifs in the spandrels of the arcade; notice also the pattern on the arch and the capital

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 17 August 2013 by Juan Antonio Olañeta for BSI

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 29 August 2013)

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the bottom of one of the columns of the arcade and its base

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 17 August 2013 by Juan Antonio Olañeta for BSI

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view of basin - projection

Scene Description: a comparative re-created projection of the basin program at Sandhurst font

view of basin - projection

Scene Description: a comparative re-created projection of the basin program at Sandhurst font

Image Source: image created in January 2008

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior

Scene Description: the ruins of the old church at Lancaut

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes on 6 January 2008

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view of church exterior

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes January 2008

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view of church interior - crypt

Scene Description: the interior of the crypt with G. G. Scott's 19th-century font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 October 2007 by Holly Hayes, Sacred Destinations [www.sacred-destinations.com]

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view of church interior - crypt - detail

Scene Description: moustache-bearing head on a capital of the crypt

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 July 2000 by BSI

view of church interior - crypt - lavabo

Scene Description: an old lavabo (?) built into one of the walls of the crypt

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 July 2000 by BSI

view of church interior - crypt - lavabo - detail

Scene Description: an old lavabo (?) built into one of the walls of the crypt

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 July 2000 by BSI

view of font

Scene Description: the [then] Llancaut font shown together with the font from Tidenham

Image Source: illustration by J. Basire and Sarah Ormerod in Ormerod (1842)

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view of font

Image Source: illustration by J. Basire and Sarah Ormerod in Ormerod (1842)

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2013 by Juan Antonio Olañeta for BSI

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 29 August 2013)

view of font

Scene Description: the 19th-century font made for this Cathedral by Sir G. G. Scott; now wisely relegated to the crypt

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 July 2000 by BSI

view of font

Scene Description: as displayed in July 2000

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 July 2000 by BSI

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes January 2008

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view of font in context

Copyright Instructions: Released by its author into the public domain

view of object

Scene Description: A font-like sculpture entitled "The Brimming Bowl", as exposed at Gloucester Cathedral on 6 April 2015 [NB: the shiny surface is water].

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2015 by John Wilkes

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 00253GLO

Church/Chapel: Cathedral Church of The Holy and Indivisible Trinity [earlier Benedictine Abbey of St. Peter]

Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity [until the Reformation it was dedicated to St. Peter]

Church Location: 12 College St Gloucester GL1 2LX -- Tel.: +44 1452 528095

Country Name: England

Location: Gloucestershire, South West

Directions to Site: Gloucester is located off (W) the A430, on Northgate St, 9-10 km WSW of Cheltenham and the M5

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester

Historical Region: Hundred of Dudstone

Font Location in Church: In the Lady Chapel, at the centre of the vestibule, near the Ambulatory.

Date: ca. 1130-1140?

Century and Period: 12th century (early to mid?), Late Norman

Workshop/Group/Artisan: lead font

Cognate Fonts: Frampton-on-Severn, Oxenhall (11 arches), Sandhurst, Tidenham, etc.

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, Peter Austin and Juan Antonio Olañeta for their photographs of this church and font. We are also grateful to Dr. K.M. Tomlinson, of the Cathedral staff, for his generous assistance during the on-site work (19 July 2000), especially his erudite and entertaining tour of the "lower recesses" of the Cathedral, including the crypt, and the follow-up information and documentation. on his own font.

Church Notes: Gloucester Cathedral's WEB site: www.btinternet.com/~gloucester.cathedral/

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are five entries for Gloucester [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SO8318/gloucester/] [accessed 12 April 2020] none of which mentions priest or church in it. Described and illustrated by Sarah Ormerod and J. Basire in Ormerod (1842), who suggests that the fonts from Tidenham and the one from Lancaut [then; now in Gloucester] are "apparently of the Saxon period, and certainly casts from the same mould. [...] The architecture may be referred either to the later Saxon, or earlier Norman period; but the dress, and, in particular, the beards of the figures, the decorations of the thrones, the ornamental foliage, and the scrolls, will more probably be referred to the Saxon æra. As far as their coarser execution will allow comparison, they very much resemble the delineations given in the Benedictional of Æthelwold." Ormerod (ibid.) notes that the font at "Llancaut has suffered much damage, besides loss of two of the original twelve compartments [...] The damaged state of this latter font [...] may be attributed to the consequences of the squirmish here in 1644, and the pursuit and slaughter of the Royalists at the pass of the Wye immediately adjacent." Noted in Paley (1844) [after Ormerod (1842). Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports "a curiously sculptured leaden font, supposed to be of the 10th century" in Lancaut St. James'. The tub-like bowl has a band of ornamentation at the top, under which are 12 round arches that contain 6 seated Apostles and acanthus motifs alternatively (one of the sitting figures wears rich clothing, rests a book (?) on his left knee and has the right arm raised in benediction). The round arches and the columns on which they rest have varied ornamentation patterns. The Latin inscription on the inside reinforcing metal ring informs that the font was recovered from Sir William Marling in 1890 from St. James' church, Lancaut [Lancaut is 1.5 miles north of Chepstow]. The Sacred Destinations web site [www.sacred-destinations.com] [accessed 10 January 2008] notes: "The Norman lead font near the entrance to the chapel dates from c.1130 and has fine figurative carvings. It was given to the cathedral in 1940." Andre (1882) lists a lead font under "Llancourt", in Gloucestershire. Lethaby (1893) gives this font and the one at "Tedenham" as duplicates, both in Gloucestershire. "evidently of the twelfth century". Noted in Fryer (1908). The Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 4, 1988) notes: "The minster of St. Peter [...] was established by Osric, under-king of the Hwicce, on the north side of Gloucester c. 679. It became a Benedictine abbey in 1022, and Eldred, bishop of Worcester 1047–62, rebuilt the abbey church. [...] Eldred's church was probably on the same site as the great Norman church that replaced it in the late 11th century [...] begun in 1089". The VCH entry (ibid.) reports that the abbey church became a cathedral dedicated to the Holy and Undivided Trinity in 1541, and suffered some damage in the siege of Gloucester of 1643, after which "a portable wooden font was made in 1663". Thre is no information in the VCH entry about the fate or whereabouts of the medieval font here, but it does mention the introduction of "a new Romanesque-style font in 1878", designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott; the VCH footnote reads: It was kept in the crypt from the mid 20th cent. and a Norman lead font from Lancaut, placed on a new podium in the lady chap. in 1986, was used instead: cf. V.C.H. Glos. x. 77–8." Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002) as "probably late C12 […] given to the cathedral in 1940 […] tapering stone base and plinth of 1986". The "other font", a large reddish 19th-century object typical of the worst Victorian excess, said to be by Sir George Gilbert Scott, is out of sight, well hidden in the Cathedral's crypt. [NB: there are a number of other medieval religious buildings -or their ruins- in Gloucester, as well as a number of later parish churches. Of the former, Augustinian priory, Greyfriars, etc., no fonts remain; of the latter, only modern fonts are extant now]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.8675, -2.246667

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 52′ 3″ N, 2° 14′ 48″ W

UTM: 30U 551869 5746570

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, lead

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: tub-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 0.7 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 54.5 cm* / 55 cm**

Diameter (includes rim): 55.3 cm* / 80 cm***

Basin Depth: 31 cm*

Height of Basin Side: 33 cm*

Basin Total Height: 33 cm* / 55 cm** / 47.5 cm***

Font Height (less Plinth): 33 cm*

Notes on Measurements: BSI [NB: measurements represent the font in its 'reduced' state [cf. FontNotes] -- the stone on which the font stands is a modern addition] -- * [given in inches in Fryer (1908: 281)] -- **[in inches in Lethaby (1893)]

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Notes: cf. Images for a view of the inscription

Inscription Location: on a reinforcing ring in the inside of the font

Inscription Text: [English translation: "FONT RECOVERED FROM SIR WILLIAM MARLING IN 1890 FROM ST. JAMES CHURCH, LANCAUT"]

Inscription Source: Translation provided in "The Lancaut group of fonts" by D. Fletcher in the Friends of Gloucester Cathedral Annual Report

REFERENCES

Gloucester Cathedral [a guide], Andover, Hants.: Pitkin Pictorials, 1992

The Visual Culture of Wales = Diwylliant gweledol Cymru, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1998-2003

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-06-21 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

André, J. Lewis, "Leaden Fonts in Sussex", 32, Surrey Archaeological Collections, relating to the history and antiquities of the county, 1882

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

Buck, A.G. Randle, "Some Wiltshire fonts. Part II", LIV, CXCIV (June 1951), The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 1951, pp. 19-35; r["References"]

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Fryer, Alfred C., "The Gloucestershire fonts", 31(1908); 34(1911); 40(1917); 41(1918); 42(1920), Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 1908, 1911, 1920, pp. 31 (277-281); 34 (195-207); 40(39-56); 41 (27-35); 42 (69-88); r["References"]

Lethaby, William Richard, Leadwork, old and ornamental, and for the most part English [...] with illustrations, London; New York: Macmillan & co., 1893

Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831

Ormerod, George, "An account of some ancient remains [...] the leaden fonts of Llancaut and Tidenham [...]", XXIX, Archaeologia, 1842, pp. [18]-25; r["References"]

Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844

Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002