Gawsworth / Gowsworth

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design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 16

Source caption: "Gawsworth, St. James' Church: Octagonal c16th font with c19th stem"
Scene Description: Source caption: "Gawsworth, St. James' Church: Octagonal c16th font with c19th stem"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 3 October 2021 by Michael Garlick [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6990296] [accessed 18 August 2023]
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design element - patterns - tracery - window tracery

all around the underbowl
Scene Description: all around the underbowl
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 3 October 2021 by Michael Garlick [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6990288] [accessed 18 August 2023]
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symbol - shield - blank - 16

may have been painted originally
Scene Description: may have been painted originally
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 3 October 2021 by Michael Garlick [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6990296] [accessed 18 August 2023]
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view of basin - east side

Source caption: "Gawsworth, St. James' Church: Octagonal c16th font with c19th stem"
Scene Description: Source caption: "Gawsworth, St. James' Church: Octagonal c16th font with c19th stem"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 3 October 2021 by Michael Garlick [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6990266] [accessed 18 August 2023]
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view of church exterior - southeast view

Source caption: "Gawsworth St James - south side. The main body of the church consists of a 4-bay nave and single-bay chancel, of the same height and in Perpendicular style. "
Scene Description: Source caption: "Gawsworth St James - south side. The main body of the church consists of a 4-bay nave and single-bay chancel, of the same height and in Perpendicular style. "
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stephen Craven, 2019
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 27 May 2019 by Stephen Cravemn [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6167423] [accessed 23 August 2023]
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view of church interior - looking east

Source caption: "Gawsworth, St. James' Church: The nave"
Scene Description: Source caption: "Gawsworth, St. James' Church: The nave"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 3 October 2021 by Michael Garlick [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6990275] [accessed 18 August 2023]
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view of font - east side

Source caption: "Gawsworth, St. James' Church: Octagonal c16th font with c19th stem"
Scene Description: Source caption: "Gawsworth, St. James' Church: Octagonal c16th font with c19th stem"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 3 October 2021 by Michael Garlick [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6990288] [accessed 18 August 2023]
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view of font and cover in context

Source caption: "Church of St James the Great, Gawsworth. The font is 15th century, the ornate cover being added at the time of the Victorian restoration."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of St James the Great, Gawsworth. The font is 15th century, the ornate cover being added at the time of the Victorian restoration."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alan Murray-Rust, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph 9 August 2016 [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5076156] [accessed 18 August 2023]
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view of font and cover in context - east side

Source caption: "Gawsworth, St. James' Church: Octagonal c16th font with c19th stem"
Scene Description: Source caption: "Gawsworth, St. James' Church: Octagonal c16th font with c19th stem"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 3 October 2021 by Michael Garlick [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6990282] [accessed 18 August 2023]
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view of font cover - finial

Source cover: "Gawsworth, St. James' Church: Font cover detail"
Scene Description: Source cover: "Gawsworth, St. James' Church: Font cover detail"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 3 October 2021 by Michael Garlick [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6990290] [accessed 18 August 2023]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 01443GOW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James
Church Patron Saints: St. James
Church Location: Church Ln, Gawsworth, Macclesfield SK11 9RJ, United Kingdom
Country Name: England
Location: Cheshire, North West
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A536 [ka Congleton Rd], 4 km SW of Macclesfield
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 16th century[altered], Perpendicular [altered]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Font Notes:
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Noted in Pevsner (1971): "Font. Big octagonal bowl; Perp[endicular]. Two shields in panels on each side." Richards (1973) remarks on a 15th-century font that survived the restoration of 1851, and adds "Bodley cover given by the Author in 1970". Church listed in Historic England [Listing NGR: SJ8901069688]: "Church. C15 and C16 [...] Octagonal C16 panelled ashlar font on C19 stem with wooden cover, probably by J Oldrid Scott." The Heritage Gateway web site [/www.heritagegateway.org.uk] notes: "Octagonal C16 panelled ashlar font on C19 stem with wooden cover, probably by J Oldrid Scott."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.2241, -2.1661
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 13′ 26.76″ N 53.2241, 2° 9′ 57.96″ W -2.1661
UTM: 30U 555673 5897525

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Apparatus: yes; counterweight
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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