Upton St. Leonards

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BBU01: design element - motifs - moulding - flat moulding

Scene Description: at the upper basin side

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, April 2007

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, April 2007

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - portal

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, April 2007

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font in context

Scene Description: The Norman font at the time when it was still in the churchyard

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Bond (1908)

Copyright Instructions: PD

INFORMATION

FontID: 05662UPT

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Leonard

Church Patron Saints: St. Leonard

Country Name: England

Location: Gloucestershire, South West

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the M5, just SE of Gloucester

Font Location in Church: In the churchyard [ca. 1908]

Century and Period: 12th century?, Norman

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of this font.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The National Gazetteer of 1868 reports "a stone font" in the church, without further details, but mentions a major restoration of the church in 1850. Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as one of "many a font, especially of the plainer sort" abandoned or discarded; this one, is a plain, quasi-cylindrical unmounted basin with a broad moulding at the upper basin side. It stands, on what appears to be the original plinth, in the churchyard [ca. 1908]. Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Norman tub-shaped bowl." The roughly cylindrical basin has a broad flat moulding around the upper basin side, but appears otherwise plain; it is mounted on a later [modern?] base. Wooden cover; flat and modern, with metal ring handle.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: cylindrical (unmounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th-century?

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: flat and round, with ring handle

REFERENCES

The National Gazetteer: a Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles, London: Virtue & Co., 1868

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002