Eastington / Eastrington

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design element - motifs - scallop

Scene Description: an odd protruding shelf-like ring with a scalloped lower side, all around the centre of the font

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view of church exterior - north view

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view of church exterior - south view

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view of church exterior - west tower

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view of font

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Image Source: digital image of an B&W illustration In Bond (1908: 49)

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view of font

Scene Description: showing the new lining (with chain attached for the plug!)

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view of font and cover in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05244EAS
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael & All Angels [earlier St. Mary's]
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Angels [earlier: St. Mary]
Church Location: Churchend, Eastington, Gloucestershire, GL10 3SB
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located N of Frocester, between Stonehouse and the M5
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Whitstone
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman? / Transitional?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of this church and font.
No individual entry for Eastington found in the Domesday survey. Tymms (1834) reports a font "curiously sculpted" here. The Gloucestershire Notes and Queries of 1887 (entry #1230, p. 271) notes: "the fine old church" of the 14th century building, and "the only relic of an earlier period being the font, which is Norman." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as a bucket-shaped mounted font that would have been common enough, but "the waistband is retained in the abnormal form of a shelf scalloped below, a double base is added, so that at last the font consists of three divisions, base, shaft, bowl." The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 10, 1972) notes: "The church of St. Michael, formerly St. Mary, […] comprises nave, chancel, south aisle, west tower, north porch, and north vestry and organchamber. No part of the fabric is obviously earlier than the 14th century, but the Norman font, which has a plain bowl and a pedestal encircled by a broad shelf scalloped on the underside, […] presumably survives from the earlier church". Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Norman, a plain tub with a band at the top. Cylindrical pedestal with a broad shelf of sixteen carved scallops, standing on a double circular base."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.750108, -2.316318
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 45′ 0.39″ N, 2° 18′ 58.75″ W
UTM: 30U 547196 5733466

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined; new lining

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and round, with knob handle

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2008-10-22 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
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