Chipping Campden No. 1 / Campdene / Chippin Campden

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view of church exterior - southeast view

EXT SE digital photograph taken 13 April 2009 by Traumrune [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chipping-Campden-04.JPG] [accessed 18 March 2019] GFDL CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0 INT E digital photograph taken 24 May 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5467635] [accessed 18 March 2019]
Scene Description: EXT SE digital photograph taken 13 April 2009 by Traumrune [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chipping-Campden-04.JPG] [accessed 18 March 2019] GFDL CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0 INT E digital photograph taken 24 May 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5467635] [accessed 18 March 2019]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Traumrune, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 April 2009 by Traumrune [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chipping-Campden-04.JPG] [accessed 18 March 2019]
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view of church interior - looking east

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5467635] [accessed 18 March 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

Font ID: 06331CHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1, fragment
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. James
Font Location in Church: Built into the E wall of the south side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James
Church Notes: "Wool" church replaced earlier building
Church Address: Church St, Chipping Campden GL55 6JG, UK -- Tel.: +44 1386 841927
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B4081 just NE of the A44, 30-35 km NE of Cheltenham
Historical Region: Hundred of Witley
Additional Comments: recycled font: built into the east wall of the south side of the church
Font Notes:
There is an entry for [Chipping] Campden [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SP1539/chipping-campden/] [accessed 18 March 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Tyrrell-Green (1928) reports an "interesting old font" ornamented with a wide horizontal band of scroll-work covering most of the basin sides; it was re-used as construction material and built into the east wall of the south side. Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Fonts. One of 1839, a close copy of the late C14 font in St Mary Magdalen, Oxford.-- Half of another, fixed to the E[ast] wall of the S[outh] aisle, has E[arly] E[nglish] decoration probably worked on a Norman bowl." [NB: this may be the font reported in Tymms (1834) simply under 'Campden', in his chapter on Gloucestershire]. [cf. Index entry for Chipping Campden No. 2 for a baptismal font of the Early English period in this church]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 583968 5767701
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.05354, -1.7754
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 3′ 12.74″ N, 1° 46′ 31.44″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

  • 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 / [http://books.google.com/books?id=qcouAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA51&lpg=PA51&dq=kempsford+church+font&source=web&ots=h2yFXWCzVN&sig=wFjiUVbwBUazMXVSJwmmw5-jmlA] [accessed 23 September 2007]
  • Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 43, 55
  • Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002, vol. 1: 231