Coates nr. Cirencester / Cotes

Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008

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BBL01: design element - motifs - moulding - flat moulding

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 3 January 2008]

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BBU01: design element - motifs - moulding - flat moulding

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 3 January 2008]

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view of church exterior - east view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 3 January 2008]

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view of church interior - chancel

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 3 January 2008]

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view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 3 January 2008]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05206COA
Church/Chapel: Church of St. Matthew
Church Patron Saints: St. Matthew
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located 3-4 kms W of Cirencester
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of The Gloucestershire Photo Library, for his photographs of church and font.
Tymms (1834) lists a font in "Cotes", in his chapter for Gloucestershire [NB: 'Cotes' has ben used in English toponyms as an alternative spelling for 'Coates']. Described in Bond (1908) as a font with a basin "the shape of a bowl", i.e., roughly hemispherical. The Historic Church Trails in Gloucestershire site [http://www.gloschurchtourism.com/pages2/thamesheadchurches.htm] [accessed 3 January 2008] notes: "the Baptistery has the original Norman Font". Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Cylindrical bowl probably c.1200; the chamfered stem and Perp[endicular]-style octagonal style may be C19." The wooden font cover is octagonal and flat, with metal decorations and finial, and appears to have been re-cycled from a different font.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Tymms, Samuel, Family Topographer, being a compendious account of the antient and present state of the counties of England: vol. IV, Oxford circuit, London: Nichols & Son, 1834
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002