Barthomley / Bertemeleu

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view of church exterior - north porch

Scene Description: with the old stoup wall-mounted on the left

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Craig Thornber [www.thornber.net/cheshire/htmlfiles/barthomley.html] [accessed 28 April 2018]

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 20 April 2016 by Colin Park [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5219657] [accessed 28 April 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: with the baptismal font partially visible in the foreground

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 September 2010 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2067948] [accessed 28 April 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: with the baptismal font at the far [west] end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 September 2010 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2068111] [accessed 28 April 2018]

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view of font

Scene Description: the font appears to have been re-tooled

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 6 June 1998 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3269715] [accessed 28 April 2018]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 September 2010 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2067953] [accessed 28 April 2018]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01441BAR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Bertoline

Church Patron Saints: St. Bettelin [aka Bertram, Berthelm, Bertelin, Beccelin, ]

Church Location: Barthomley, Crewe CW2 5PF, UK -- Tel.: +44 1270 877112

Country Name: England

Location: Cheshire, North West

Directions to Site: Located off the B5077, W of the M6, 6.5 km SE of Crewe

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chester

Historical Region: Hundred of Warmundestrou

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 14th - 16th century, Perpendicular

Church Notes: the present church is modern but includes a 12thC Norman doorway built into the north wall;

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907: 189) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SJ7676452378] reports: "An entrance porch, on north side of nave, still has the original stone holy water font" [i.e., stoup?], but mentions no baptismal font in it; the 'original' stoup, built into the wall of the porch, to the left of the door has a trefoiled frame, therefore unlikely that it was of the same period as the Norman doorway. The present font in use in this church consists of an octagonal basin with a rounded underbowl, raised on a short stem and a slightly wider base, all octagonal, all plain; the font appears to have been drastically re-tooled. The wooden cover, a flat and plain octagon with a raised finial-handle, is modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.0682, -2.3483

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 4′ 5.52″ N, 2° 20′ 53.88″ W

UTM: 30U 543667 5880056

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907