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]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
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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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]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
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]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 05206COA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Church of St. Matthew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Matthew
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 3-4 kms W of Cirencester
Additional Comments: altered font / composite font
Font Notes:
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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.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of The Gloucestershire Photo Library, for his photographs of church and 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, p. 42-43, 49-50
- 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, p. 51 / [http://books.google.com/books?id=qcouAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA51&lpg=PA51&dq=kempsford+church+font&source=web&ots=h2yFXWCzVN&sig=wFjiUVbwBUazMXVSJwmmw5-jmlA] [accessed 23 September 2007]
- Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002, vol.1: 285