Wyck Rissington / Riseduna / Wick Rissington / Rissington Wyck

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Results: 4 records

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view of font and cover

Image Source: Digital photograph by John Wilkes, 2007 [www.allthecotswolds.com]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Laurence, Wyck Rissington. A 13th Century village church where Gustav Holst was once the organist."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 October 2017 by Bill Boaden [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5596754] [accessed 14 December 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 September 2006 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/233604] [accessed 14 December 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 January 2005 by Ashley Columbus [whttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wyck_Rissington_Church_interior.JPG] [accessed 14 December 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

Font ID: 05923WIC

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Date: ca. 1200?

Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century [basin only] -- 19th-century base only [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Laurence

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]

Church Address: Unnamed Rd, Wyck Rissington, Gloucestershire, GL54 2PN, UK

Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located just E of the A429, 3-4 km S of Stow-on-the-Wold, 30 km ENE of Cirencester, about 55-60 km WNW of Oxford

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester

Historical Region: Hundred of Salmonsbury [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Slaughter

Additional Comments: altered font (Late-Norman basin on a 19th-century base -- buried font - restored font [cf. FontNotes])

Font Notes: Click to view

There is an entry for [Wick] Rissington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP1921/wick-rissington/] [accessed 14 December 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Tyrrell-Green (1928) notes a baptismal font of the Norman period in which the standard three-part (bowl-stem-base) form first appears clearly outlined. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 6, 1965) notes: "Architectural evidence shows that there was a church in Wick Rissington by the 12th century. [...] The tub-shaped font of c. 1200 was for many years buried in the churchyard." Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): Font. Tub-shaped, c. 1200, on a C19th base." The entry for this church in Histroic England [Listing NGR: SP1916021494] notes: "Anglican parish church. C12, C13, C14, C15 restored by J. E. K. Cults 1879 [...] tub- shaped font of c1200 at the west end of the nave. [...] C19 octagonal wooden font with blind tracery."

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

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 587879 5749763

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.891691, -1.722962

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 53′ 30.09″ N, 1° 43′ 22.66″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: round and flat, with metal decoration and handle

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 26, 79
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002, vol. 1: 765