Ruardean / Ruuirdin

Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007

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Results: 4 records

view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St John the Baptist, Ruardean. The spire has been twice rebuilt, first in 1768 by Joseph Bryan and again by Pearson & Son of Ross-on-Wye in 1866-7, when the pinnacles and flying buttresses were added."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Pankhurst, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 May 2015 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4494403] [accessed 12 December 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "St John the Baptist, Ruardean. The South doorway, with a George and the Dragon tympanum, a fine example of the work of the Herefordshire school of Romanesque sculpture, dating from the mid 12th century. Malcolm Thurlby compares it with the Brinsop tympanum, but suggests that it is a work of an assistant to the Chief Master. The ogival-arched niche above the doorway is two centuries younger."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Pankhurst, 2015

Image Source: photograph taken 25 May 2015 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4494403] [accessed 12 December 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum

Scene Description: Source caption: "St John the Baptist, Ruardean. The South doorway, with a George and the Dragon tympanum, a fine example of the work of the Herefordshire school of Romanesque sculpture, dating from the mid 12th century. Malcolm Thurlby compares it with the Brinsop tympanum, but suggests that it is a work of an assistant to the Chief Master. The ogival-arched niche above the doorway is two centuries younger."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Pankhurst, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 May 2015 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4494446] [accessed 12 December 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes March 2007 [www.allthecotswolds.com]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 06368RUA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: High St / School Rd, Ruardean GL17 9US, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located E of the A40, 7-8 km S of Ross-on-Wye
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Bromsash [in Domesday] -- Hundred of St. Briavels
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1657
Century and Period: 17th century(mid),
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photograph of this font.
There is an entry for Ruardean [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SO6117/ruardean/] [accessed 12 December 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Tyrrell-Green (1928) notes the font here as one of several attempts during the Stuart period "to go back to earlier precedent"; this case and the one of the font at Stow-on-the-Wold, adds the same source (ibid.), "were productive of somewhat clumsy results". The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 5, 1996) notes: "In 1200 Hugh of Walford disputed the advowson of Ruardean church with Robert of Aumale. [...] The aisle was probably the 12th- century church [...] Of the fittings the font and the wooden pulpit date from the 17th century, the font having an octagonal bowl dated 1657". Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Dated 1657, a rare date for a font [i.e., because it falls between the Commonwealth of 1649 and the Restoration of 1660]. Shallow octagonal bowl on a splayed shaft." [NB: the font appears to have been re-tooled -- the church has a beautiful tympanum [Hereford School?] over the south door, but we have no information on the earlier font of this church].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.8561, -2.5516
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 51′ 21.96″ N, 2° 33′ 5.76″ W
UTM: 30U 530881 5745128

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Text: "1657"
Inscription Source: Tyrrell-Green (1928: 155)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with large wooden handle

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2018-12-12 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
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002