Little Barrington / Bernintone
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Results: 8 records
view of font and cover
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design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - in a circle - in a square - 8
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design element - motifs - floral - 8
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view of church exterior - portal
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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design element - motifs - moulding - 2
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cook & Smith, 1976
Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Cook & Smith (1976: pl. 28)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00506LIT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Cognate Fonts: The font at nearby Little Rissington is similar
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the N aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: Little Barrington, Gloucestrshire, OX18 4TF, UK
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A40, just W of Burford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Barrington
Font Notes:
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There is an entry of r[Little] Barrington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SP2012/little-barrington/] [accessed 9 March 2023]; it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 6, 1965) notes: "Of the late 12th-century church there survives the south doorway [...] The font is 15th-century," Illustrated in Cook & Smith (1976). Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. C15 octagonal bowl with good carving". Octagonal mounted baptismal font in the Perpendicular style; the basin sides are ornamented with a Tudor rose inside a quatrefoil window; there is a motif (?) on each side of the octagonal chamfer; the base is also octagonal but plain and the font stands on a quadrangular plinth. The wooden font cover, flat and plain, with a knob handle, is modern.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 589996 5741145
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat modern lid with knob handle
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Smith, Edwin, English Parish Churches, London: Thames & Hudson, 1976, pl. 28