Upton St. Leonards
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BBU01: design element - motifs - moulding - flat moulding
Scene Description: at the upper basin side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, April 2007
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Scene Description: The Norman font at the time when it was still in the churchyard
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Bond (1908)
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view of church exterior - portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, April 2007
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, April 2007
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 05662UPT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century?, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Leonard
Font Location in Church: In the churchyard [ca. 1908]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Leonard
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the M5, just SE of Gloucester
Additional Comments: abandoned font: now [ca. 1908] in the churchyard -- restored to the church prior to 2007 [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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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.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of this font.
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, [www/genuki.org.uk/big/eng/GLS/UptonStLeonards/Gaz1868.html]
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 277
- Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002, vol. 2: 789