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)
Copyright Instructions: PD
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes 27 March 2007
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes 27 March 2007
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view of font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes 27 March 2007
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INFORMATION
FontID: 01139DOW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin and Corpus Christi
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & Corpus Christi
Church Location: Down Hatherley Ln, Gloucester GL2 9QB, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1452 739142
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located just N of the town of Gloucester, on the A38
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1500?
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century[basin only] [stone base is 1860] [composite font], Tudor [altered]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: lead font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for the photographs of this font.
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."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.90074, -2.19357
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 54′ 2.66″ N, 2° 11′ 36.85″ W
UTM: 30U 555484 5750306
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
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
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