Bibury / Becheberie

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: on the columns of the base

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, 2007 [www.allthecotswolds.com]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: on the outer colonnettes of the base; the upper ones are rope mouldings, the rest are plain

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

design element - motifs - tracery

side 1
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INT CHANCEL WALL DETAIL digital photograph taken 27 May 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5444291] [accessed 21 December 2018] Source caption: "Bibury, St. Mary's Church: Saxon gravestone set into the north wall of the chancel".

Scene Description: side 1 ***********************ADD THIS PIC(S) & CHECK TO SEE IF ALL BSI PICS ARE GOOD RES****************** INT CHANCEL WALL DETAIL digital photograph taken 27 May 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5444291] [accessed 21 December 2018] Source caption: "Bibury, St. Mary's Church: Saxon gravestone set into the north wall of the chancel".

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

design element - motifs - tracery

Scene Description: side 2

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

design element - motifs - tracery

Scene Description: side 4

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

design element - patterns - tracery

Scene Description: side 3

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of basin - interior

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of basin - upper view

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, 2007 [www.allthecotswolds.com]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of church interior - chancel - north side

Scene Description: Source caption: "Bibury, St. Mary's Church: Saxon gravestone set into the north wall of the chancel".

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5444291] [accessed 21 December 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church interior - chancel - north side

Scene Description: Source caption: "Bibury, St. Mary's Church: Saxon gravestone set into the north wall of the chancel".

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 27 May 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5444291] [accessed 21 December 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church interior - looking east

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of church interior - looking east

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of church interior - looking northeast

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of church interior - nave - ceiling

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of font

Image Source: digital image of an Illustration in Daubeny (1921)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font

Scene Description: side 2

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font

Scene Description: side 4

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of font

Scene Description: side 3

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of font

Image Source: drawing by Edward Wyatt in 'Church architecture' [http:web.ukonline.co.uk/prestbury/0102/pagei.htm]

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of font - upper view

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, 2007 [www.allthecotswolds.com]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover

Scene Description: sides 4 and 1

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of font in context

Scene Description: side 1

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

INFORMATION

FontID: 04775BIB

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Church Rd, Bibury, Cirencester GL7 5NR, UK -- Tel.: +44 1451 860212

Country Name: England

Location: Gloucestershire, South West

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B4425, SE of Abington, about 8 km ENE of Cirencester

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester

Historical Region: Hundred of Bibury [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Brightwells Barrow

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 13th century [restored], Early English [altered]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font.

Font Notes: Click to view

There is an entry for Bibury [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP1106/bibury/] [accessed 19 December 2018]; it mentions no church in it, but it reports "3.0 church lands" and lists a priest as one of the lords i 1086 in it. A font here is illustrated in Daubeny (1921). Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a late example of a Norman design of baptismal font with a square basin. Hutton (1957) describes it as a 13th-century square baptismal font in the Early English style. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 7, 1981) notes: "A church had been founded at Bibury by 899 when Bishop Waerfrith in leasing land to a priest reserved the church-scot and soul-scot paid to Bibury [...] A priest was recorded in 1086 [...] The font, a square bowl on an octagonal stem surrounded by four octagonal shafts, dates from the early 13th century." Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Later C13, square with tracery patterns, on four octagonal corner pillars and one central pillar containing the drain. Corner shafts with rope enrichment, a survival of the Norman cable motif. All much restored." The font consists of a square basin with verticals sides, each decorated with tracery: trefoil arches in pointed windows, intersecting arcade of round arches, etc., in framed panels; the base consists of five colonnettes, a plain one in the centre and four others decorated with moulded bases and capitals at the angles; the square lower base is plain.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.75711, -1.8301

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 45′ 25.6″ N, 1° 49′ 48.36″ W

UTM: 30U 580747 5734671

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Drainage Notes: lead lining

Rim Thickness: 9 - 9.5 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 58 cm

Basin Depth: 41 cm

Height of Basin Side: 60 - 61 cm

Basin Total Height: 60 - 61 cm

Height of Base: 40 cm

Height of Central Column: 40 cm

Height of Side Columns: 40 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 101 cm

Trapezoidal Basin: 76 - 79 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: round and flat, with metal decoration and handle

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2018-12-19 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Daubeny, Ulric, Ancient Cotswold Churches, Cheltenham: J. Burrow, 1921

Hutton, Graham, English Parish Churches, London: Thames & Hudson, 1976

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928

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