Stow-on-the-Wold / Edwardstow? / Stow St. Edward

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06367STO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Edward

Church Patron Saints: St. Edward the Confessor [cf. FontNotes]

Church Location: Church Street, Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, GL54 1AB

Country Name: England

Location: Gloucestershire, South West

Directions to Site: Located at the junction of the A429 and the A436, about 30 km E of Cheltenham, 32 km NE of Cirencester

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester

Historical Region: Humdred of Salsmonsbury [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Slaughter

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the S aisle, by the tower arch

Century and Period: 16th - 17th century, Post-Reformation

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of The Gloucestershire Photo Library [www.allthecotswolds.com/], and to Colin Smith, for their photographs of this church and font.

Church Notes: church fabric shows some Norman work; may have been pre-Conquest, but not mentioned in the Domesday survey

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No individual entry for Stow-on-the-Wold found in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP1925/stow-on-the-wold/] [accessed 16 August 2015]. A font here is described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as one of several attempts during the Stuart period "to go back to earlier precedent"; this case and the one of the Ruardean font, adds the same source (ibid.), "were productive of somewhat clumsy results". The Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 6, 1965) notes: "A reference to the church of St. Edward in Stow in 986 seems not altogether reliable: the charter confirming the grant allegedly made then is thought to be spurious. [...] There is no architectural evidence of the existence of the church before the 12th century, [...] but by 1086 there was a priest and the town's name, Edwardstow, reflected the invocation of the church. [...] By 1476 the invocation was tacitly assumed to be to the Confessor, [...] although he was not canonized for nearly 100 years after 1086. [...] To know which St. Edward gave the church its name would help to determine the date of its foundation. It seems most likely to have been Edward the Martyr, if only because other suggested possibilities are far-fetched. [...] The goblet-shaped octagonal font is late 16th-century." The VCH reference to the font is footnoted: "'Glos. fonts', Trans. B.G.A.S. xlvii. 169 and plate III." The font consists of an octagonal basin tapering and rounded at the lower sides and underbowl, mouldings at the junction with the octagonal pedestal base, itself splaying to a moulded lower end; raised on a plinth, the upper volume octagonal, the lower one rectangular.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.93039, -1.723771

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 55′ 49.4″ N, 1° 43′ 25.58″ W

UTM: 30U 587748 5754065

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal and flat; probably modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-07-10 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