Bledington / Bladintun
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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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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of font and cover in context
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Image Source: digital photograph by David Ross, in Britain Express [http://www.britainexpress.com/counties/glouces/churches/Bledington/Bledington-1832-17032007.htm] [accessed 21 September 2008]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 01030BLE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Leonard
Church Patron Saints: St. Leonard
Church Location: Church Road, Bledington, Gloucestershire, OX7 6XD
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the B4450, 8 km WWS of Chipping Norton, 45 km E of Gloucester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Salmonsbury [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Slaughter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, S aisle
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: the now disused font at Lower Lemington, Gloucs.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, and to David Ross, of www.britainexpress.com, for their photographs of church and font
There is an entry for Bledington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP2422/bledington/] [accessed 13 December 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Tyrrell-Green (1928) lists a tub-shaped baptismal font of the Norman period here. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 6, 1965) notes: "The earliest known reference to the church of Bledington is in a confirmation of 1175, by the Pope, to Winchcombe Abbey, of all its churches. [...] The church was lavishly rebuilt in the 15th century [...] The tub-shaped font is 12th-century". The VCH entry for Lower Lemington notes the similarity with another nearby font: "The large, tub-shaped, 12th-century font, similar to the one at Bledington, stood in the chancel in 1962, when it was not in use". In Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Plain, Norman, tub-shaped." The octagonal lower base on which it rests is modern, as are the new lead lining and wooden cover, the latter flat and round, with metal decoration and ring handle.
COORDINATES
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, type unknown
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead lining [modern]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern/ 19th-century?
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2008-09-21 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2008-10-27 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002
