Stoke Orchard / Stoches

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - intersecting arches

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view of church exterior - north portal

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: the top of font is visible in the back, on the left side

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Image Source: Gethyn-Jones (1979: pl. 39a)

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02505STO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James the Great

Church Patron Saints: St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder]

Church Location: Stoke Rd, Stoke Orchard, Cheltenham GL52 7SH, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Gloucestershire, South West

Directions to Site: Located off Stoke Rd, E of the M5, 7-8 km NNW of Cheltenham, NNE of Gloucester

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester

Historical Region: Hundred of Cleeve -- Hundred of Tibblestone [in Domesday]

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

Date: ca. 1170?

Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Late Norman

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his help in documenting this font.

Church Notes: Noted in John Wilkes (2007) [after Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "St. James the Great at Stoke Orchard was originally an ancient chapel-of-ease attached to the parish of Bishop's Cleeve. It is a very interesting, small, mostly Norman building of circa 1170, consisting of nave and chancel and a single bell-turret over the chancel arch. The wall paintings which cover the four walls of the nave were discovered before 1889 and further restored 1953-55 by Clive Rouse. Five successive schemes were discovered dating from between 1200 and 1723. The decorative borders are striking and the subject of the earliest wall paintings is the life cycle of St. James of Compostela, the only set in England of that subject. There are also animal heads in some of the designs with strong Scandanavian characteristics. The font is Norman with intersecting arch ornament."

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There are two entries for Stoke [Orchard] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SO9228/stoke-orchard/] [accessed 31 January 2019] but the one priest mentioned would belong to the [Bishops] Cleeve entry. Gethyn-Jones (1979) describes a baptismal font of the 12th or 13th century; the basin is a cylindrical basin raised on a slightly broader short base and a plinth; the sides of the basin are decorated with a blind arcade of intersecting round arches all around. The entry for the parish of Bishops Cleeve in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 8, 1968) notes: "Stoke Orchard had its own church or chapel by the 12th century, as is clear from architectural evidence. The earliest known documentary evidence of the chapel is of 1269, when Nicholas Archer and the people of Stoke Orchard were given permission to hear mass and receive the sacrament there because of the distance from the parish church. [...] It was built in the late 12th century, and the nave is mainly of that date. [...] The arcaded cylindrical font is 12th-century". Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Norman, with thin intersecting arch ornament." Verey & Brooks (ibid.) further note: "small church of c. 1170", which may be also the date of the font.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.95218, -2.1212

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 57′ 7.85″ N, 2° 7′ 16.32″ W

UTM: 30U 560394 5756084

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: tub-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: round and flat, plain; modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-01-31 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Gethyn-Jones, Eric, The Dymock School of Sculpture, London: Phillimore, 1979

Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002