Lassington near Highnam / Lassingdon / Lessedune
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
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view of church exterior - tower
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 05196LAS
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Oswald
Church Patron Saints: St. Oswald of Nothumbria
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located off the B4215, just N of Gloucester; access from Highnam village
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photograph of this church
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
This church, with the exception of its tower, was demolished in 1975. The National Gazetteer of 1868 describes the church as "an ancient structure, with a small turret at the W. end". The Churches Conservation Trust [http://www.visitchurches.org.uk/content.php?nID=11&churchID=162] [accessed 23 October 2008] notes "Only the tower of St Oswald’s survives. Probably of late Saxon origin, the church is known to have been rededicated in 1095 and the two lower stages of the tower are Norman, if not earlier." A baptismal font is mentioned in the source (CIVICTRUST WEB page of the Churches Conservation Trust) among other Anglo-Saxon objects; it is not clear whether or not the font itself is claimed as being of that period/style, but there must have been a font in the original church.
REFERENCES
The National Gazetteer: a Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles, London: Virtue & Co., 1868