Welford nr. Newbury / Waliford / Weleford / Welford / Welforde / Welliford / Weliford
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view of font and cover
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - double arches - intersecting arches
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pam Brophy, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 November 2005 by Pam Brophy [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/74108] [accessed 21 May 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Len Williams, 2012
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: on the modern base
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Martin Beek, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph in FLICKR [www.flickr.com/photos/oxfordshire_church_photos] taken by Martin Beek on 30 May 2005
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01301WEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1200?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman / Transitional?
Cognate Fonts: Tidmarsh (Berks.); also, a new font at East Grafton, Wiltshire, designed after this font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Gregory the Great, Welford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Gregory the Great
Church Notes: the VCH entry [cf. FontNotes & Bibl.] mentions evidence of a pre-Conquest building on this site, but does not identify as religious or otherwise
Church Address: Welford Road, Welford, Berkshire, RG20 8HA
Site Location: Berkshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B4000, 8 km NW of Newbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Rowbury [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Faircross
Additional Comments: damaged font: broken upper rim -- altered font / restored font: the base is modern -- disappeared fonts? (the ones from the two Domesday-time churches here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Welford [variand spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU4073/welford/] [accessed 21 May 2015]; it mentions two church in it. The Catalogue of the manuscripts... of the British Museum (1844) lists a "Pen and ink drawing of the font in Welford Church; by Samuel Lysons, Esq.: 5 in. x 5 in. [Add. 9460. fol. 57]". [NB: Samuel Lysons work dates from the beginning of the 19th century]. Noted in Murray (1882), after Rickman. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a Norman font. In his description of the late-Norman font at Tidmarsh, Keyser (1911) describes it as "almost exactly like the font at Welford". Noted in the Victoria County History (Berkshire, vol. 4, 1924): "The circular font is of early 13th-century date and is carved with interlacing semicircular arches with small attached shafts having moulded capitals and bases. The upper edge of the bowl is moulded and the staple and hasp marks remain; the base upon which it stands is modern." Described and illustrated in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/be/welfo/index.htm] with date ca. 1200. The CRSBI (2015), in its entry for Tidmarsh, notes: "There is a font of almost identical design at Welford (Berks)". The sides of the bucket-shaped basin are decorated with a deeply-carved arcade of round intersecting arches, actually a double arcade since the carver has added a second set of arches behind; both capitals and bases of the supporting columns are made up of pronounced roll mouldings; the upper rim has a protruding moulding that appears to have been decorated with some sort of pattern but it much too worn now for identification; it is also broken on the east side, a damage probably resulting from the forceful removal of one of the old cover staples. The circular moulded base appears modern. The flat wooden cover is also modern. The Gentleman's Magazine (issue of July 1844: 19-21) reports the consecration on 11 April 1844 of the new church at East Grafton and describes the new font in it: "The font is placed near the west door, and is copied, in Painswick stone of very fine grain, from an original Norman example now remaining at Welford church in Berkshire".
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to David Ross, of Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com] for his photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 610279 5701705
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.455769, -1.412746
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 27′ 20.77″ N, 1° 24′ 45.89″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 8 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 61 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 77 cm*
Basin Total Height: 55 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2015)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- British Museum, Catalogue of the manuscript maps, charts, and plans, and of the topographical drawings in the British Museum, London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1844-, vol. 1: 160
- Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 186
- Keyser, Charles E., "Notes on the churches of Aldermaston, Padworth, Englefield and Tidmarsh", 17, No. 1 (April 1911); No.3(Oct. 1911), Berks, Bucks & Oxon Archaeological Journal, 1911, pp. 2-11; 65-76; p. 105
- Murray, John [the firm], Handbook for travellers in Berks. Bucks and Oxfordshire, including a [...], London: John Murray, 1882, p. 71