Cirencester No. 1 / Cicester / Cirrenceastre / Corinium Dobunnorum / Cyrneceastre
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Results: 17 records
B01: coat of arms - unidentified - in a panel - foiled panel - 8
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LB01: design element - motifs - unidentified
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UB01: design element - motifs - unidentified
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view of church exterior - detail
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view of church exterior - north porch
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view of church exterior - south porch
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view of church exterior - tower
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of church interior - nave - pulpit
Scene Description: the 15th-century pulpit
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view of church interior - nave and south aisle
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view of font
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view of font
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view of font
Scene Description: the modern font in use
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view of font
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view of font in context
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view of font in context
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Scene Description: the old disused font [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 December 2011 by Colin Smith
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view of font in context
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Scene Description: the old disused font [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 December 2011 by Colin Smith
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INFORMATION
FontID: 05185CIR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located about 20 kms NW of Swindon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, near the N entrance [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to David Ross, of Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com], to Colin Smith and to John Wilkes for their photographs of this church and font
Font Notes:
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Cox & Harvey (1907) quote a correspondent of the Gentleman's Magazine of ca. 1749: "Here is a stone pulpit and two fonts; an old one of stone standing uppon a pillar, and a new one of marble, erected by the contribution of several gentlemen of that town, which is constantly used." Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Fonts. The one in use Perp[endicular], in mutilated condition. Thrown out c.1700, but now incongruosly set on Scott's steps of grey Derbyshire marble. The other, in the Lady Chapel, is a pretty early C18 marble piece" [NB: the 'Scott' mentioned above is trhe Victorian architect George Gilbert Scott, who directed the mid-19th century renovation of the church, as the same source informs]. The font consists of an octagonal basin the sides of which are decorated with shields inscribed in foiled panels; raised on an octagonal stem and a lower base of the same shape, all terribly worn and eroded. The 'steps' referred to above constitute the plinth on which the font is raised. Verey & Brooks (ibid.) note a font by Scott [cf. supra] "with good brass cover of 1890" in the Holy Trinity church, Watermoor, also in Cirencester [NB: neither of the post-1700 fonts heve been entered separately in this Index]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.717778, -1.967778
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 43′ 4″ N, 1° 58′ 4″ W
UTM: 30U 571306 5730154
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: no lining
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002