Hawkesbury No. 2 / Hauochesderie / Havochesderie

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design element - motifs - diamond or lozenge - inside a rectangle
design element - motifs - moulding
design element - patterns - fluted
INFORMATION
FontID: 01220HAW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Hawkesbury, Badminton GL9 1BN, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A46 [aka Stroud Rd], about 20 km NE of Bristol
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Grimboldestou
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 17th century
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for the photograph of this font]
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Hawkesbury [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/ST7686/hawkesbury/] [accessed 11 April 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Betjeman (1908) reports two fonts in this church, a Norman and a later one. Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Fonts. Three, if the detached stone bowl on the floor is part of a Norman font. The font in use is C17, an octagonal bowl on a fluted base. Broken font, of similar date, by the tower arch." This 17th-century font consists of an octagonal basin the sides of which are decorated with rectangular panels, each enclosing a rhomboid shape; graded chamfer on the underbowl; octagonal stem, fluted, a moulding at either end; thick octagonal roll moulding forms the lower base; token plinth. Flat octagonal wooden cover.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.5807, -2.3359
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 34′ 50.52″ N, 2° 20′ 9.24″ W
UTM: 30U 546015 5714613
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Betjeman, John, Collins Guide to Parish Churches of England and Wales (including The Isle of Man), St.Jame's Place, London: Collins, 1980
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002