Down Hatherley
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Results: 6 records
B01: design element - motifs - floral - Tudor rose - in a panel
Scene Description: all around the middle of the basin side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes 27 March 2007
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BBL01: design element - motifs - ring
Scene Description: all around the lower side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Bond (1908)
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view of font
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes 27 March 2007
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes 27 March 2007
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes 27 March 2007
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view of font cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes 27 March 2007
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01139DOW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1500?
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th - 16th century[basin only] [stone base is 1860] [composite font], Tudor [altered]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: lead font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin and Corpus Christi
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin & Corpus Christi
Church Address: Down Hatherley Ln, Gloucester GL2 9QB, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1452 739142
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just N of the town of Gloucester, on the A38
Font Notes:
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Described in Cox & Harvey (1907): "The small leaden font […] has Tudor rosettes and other ornaments; its date is c. 1500". Clayton (1929) dates it 15th-16th century based on the rosettes, and suggests that the font was "reduced in size at some time after manufacture, as is indicated by the fact that one of the joints is clumsily made and breaks into the design, possibly the result of repair work after accidental damage." Described in Bond (1908) simply as a Tudor lead font; his illustration shows a cylindrical basin with a plain protruding vertical rim; a large motif containing a rosette repeats itself around the basin sides; the lower basin side is ornamented with a band of ring motif; the basin appears raised on a stone pedestal base. In Fryer (1908) who points out its small size: "It is the smallest of these Gloucestershire fonts", a the Renaissance foliage and the Tudor roses and cresting. Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font […] Late C16 […] on an ornate stone base of 1860."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for the photographs of this font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 555484 5750306
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.90074, -2.19357
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 54′ 2.66″ N, 2° 11′ 36.85″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: metal, lead
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (inside rim): 46.25 cm*
Basin Total Height: 30 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [in inches in Fryer (1908: 281)]
LID INFORMATION
Material: metal?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. ImageArea]
REFERENCES
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 87 and ill. on same page
- Clayton, Brian C., "English Church Fonts of Ornamental Lead Work", X, no. 57, Apollo: a Journal of the Arts, 1929, pp. 133-138; p. 133-138
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 164
- 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); p. 280-281
- Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002, vol. 2: 339