Stowell nr. Cirencester / Stanuuelle
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
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Results: 4 records
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [www.allthecotswolds.com] [accessed 5 Januray 2008]
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view of church interior - painting
Scene Description: "The wall paintings are notable - principally the early Doom painting on the North wall of the nave. This is Transitional work dating to circa 1200 to 1220. The painting depicts the Virgin flanked by paired apostles within a round-arched arcade. Below that the sifting of souls is displayed" [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [www.allthecotswolds.com] [accessed 5 Januray 2008]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [www.allthecotswolds.com] [accessed 5 Januray 2008]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the nave, looking west from the presbitery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [www.allthecotswolds.com] [accessed 5 Januray 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 05970STO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Leonard [aka St. Peter's]
Church Patron Saints: St. Leonard [dedication to St. Peter not documented]
Church Location: Stowell, Gloucestershire GL54 3LE, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A429, 3 km SW of Northleach, 14 km E of Cirencester, 17 SE of Cheltenham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Bradley
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of The Gloucestershire Photo Library, for his photographs of church and font.
Church Notes: "Remains of a once extensive system of early wall paintings were discovered at or shortly before the restoration of the church in 1898. On the north wall of the nave was a Doom, of which the top tier, a Majesty with angels, is mostly lost; below survives the Virgin flanked by saints within a tier of blank arcading, and in the lowest tier is the weighing of souls. The remains in the south transept include a scene almost certainly related to St. Margaret and another which is possibly a representation of St. Laurence on his gridiron." [VCH entry in FnotNotes]
There is an entry for this Stowell [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SP0813/stowell/] [accessed 7 February 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Tyrrell-Green (1928) list one in a very large group of baptismal fonts that are plain octagonal with straightsided basins. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 9, 2001) notes: "Stowell church originated by the mid 12th century as a chapel to Northleach church. [...] The nave and chancel are of the mid 12th century. [...] A piscina in the south transept, a credence shelf over the chancel piscina, and the octagonal font date from the 13th century." Illustrated in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 5 January 2008]. Baptismal font consisting of a plain octagonal basin with chamfered top and lower rims [the sides are worn and rough, and may well have been re-tooled at some point]; the stem of the base is also octagonal and plain; it is raised on a circular lower base and an octagonal plinth. Octagonal wooden cover with knob handle; modern. It is quite possible that two of the pieces of the font, the stem and the lower base, may be modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.816461,
-1.873742
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 48′ 59.26″ N,
1° 52′ 25.47″ W
UTM: 30U 577633 5741225
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Number of Pieces: three
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-07-25 00:00:00. 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
