Old Sodbury / Sopeberie

Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

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Image Source: digital photograph 24 May 2007 by John Wilkes

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle - 8

Scene Description: a deeply-cut motif on each of the eight basin sides

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Image Source: digital image of an engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged]

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view of church exterior - southeast view - detail

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Image Source: digital photograph 24 May 2007 by John Wilkes

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view of font and cover

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Image Source: digital image of an engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged]

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view of font and cover

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Image Source: digital photograph 24 May 2007 by John Wilkes

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Old Sodbury Church (Saint John the Baptist), Gloucestershire, 7 March 2019. 12th Century Transitional Norman nave, aisles and chancel with 13th Century Early English transepts and 15th Century Perpendicular tower. Heavily restored in 1858 by T H Wyatt. Pictured is the nave looking towards the chancel."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hugh Llewelyn, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph 7 March 2019 by Hugh Llewelyn [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Sodbury_Church_(Saint_John_the_Baptist)_(33444220948).jpg] [accessed 3 April 2025]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Old Sodbury Church (Saint John the Baptist), Gloucestershire, 7 March 2019. 12th Century Transitional Norman nave, aisles and chancel with 13th Century Early English transepts and 15th Century Perpendicular tower. Heavily restored in 1858 by TH Wyatt. Pictured is the font."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hugh Llewelyn, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph 7 March 2019 by Hugh Llewelyn [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Sodbury_Church_(Saint_John_the_Baptist)_(32378149447).jpg] [accessed 3 April 2025]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 03465SOD
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: 44 Church Ln, Old Sodbury, Bristol BS37 6NB, United Kingdom
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located off the A432, 4-5 km E of Yate, 25-30 km NE of Bristol
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: hundred of Eddredestane [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave, opposite the S door
Century and Period: 15th century? [re-tooled?], Perpendicular [altered?]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes,of www.allthecotswolds.com, for the photograph of this font.
Church Notes: late-Norman church much modified since
There is an entry for [Old] Sodbury [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/ST7581/old-sodbury/] [accessed 3 April 2025]; it mentions neither priest nor church in it. Font noted in Paley (1844). Octagonal mounted font of the 15th century in the Perpendicular style; each side of the basin has a deep-relief quatrefoil motif; the underbowl is a series of mouldings; the short stem of the base is octagonal as is the lower volume which fans out to the two-step square plinth, the upper with raised corners, the lower, plain; some damage visible on the upper basin sides, especially on the side where the old staple(s) may have been forcefully removed. Noted in Verey and Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Perp[endicular], scraped, with octagonal bowl carved with quatrefoils." [NB: the church is originally Late Norman but we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.5346, -2.35379
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 32′ 4.56″ N, 2° 21′ 13.64″ W
UTM: 30U 544821 5709475

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Rim Thickness: 11 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 47 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 69.5 cm
Basin Depth: 22.5 cm
Basin Total Height: 57 cm
Height of Base: 43 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 100 cm
Notes on Measurements: Paley (1844)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; modern

REFERENCES

Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002