Eastington / Eastrington
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Scene Description: showing the new lining (with chain attached for the plug!)
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2013 by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of font and cover in context
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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 church exterior - south view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2012 by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of church exterior - north view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2011 by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of church exterior - west tower
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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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Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2012 by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05244EAS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman? / Transitional?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael & All Angels [earlier St. Mary's]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael & All Angels [earlier: St. Mary]
Church Address: Churchend, Eastington, Gloucestershire, GL10 3SB
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located N of Frocester, between Stonehouse and the M5
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Whitstone
Font Notes:
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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) [caption in Bond's illustration reads "Eastrington"] 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."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of this church and font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 547196 5733466
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.750108, -2.316318
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 45′ 0.39″ N, 2° 18′ 58.75″ W
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-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 47 and ill. on p. 49
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 200
- 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
- Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002, vol. 2: 348