Leckhampton / Lechametone [Domesday] / Lechantone

Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008

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Results: 6 records

design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

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

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Robin Poitou, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Robin Poitou [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Church_of_St_Peter_Leckhampton.jpg] [accessed 5 April 2019]

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view of church exterior - west view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008

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

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view of church interior - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008

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

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06731LEC
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Church Rd, Cheltenham GL53 0QJ, UK -- Tel.: +44 1242 513647
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A46, 3 km SSW of Cheltenham, 9-10 km EEN of Gloucester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Cheltenham
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century [basin only], Medieval / composite
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font
There are two entries for Leckhampton [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SO9419/leckhampton/] [accessed 5 April 2019] neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) lis a baptismal font of the early Norman period here. Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Norman, with cable ornament at the top and bottom of the tub-shaped bowl; cylindrical pedestal. Renewed two-stage base and rectangular plinth." The wooden cover is flat and round, with metal decoration and ring handle.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.872639, -2.087222
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 52′ 21.5″ N, 2° 5′ 14″ W
UTM: 30U 562840 5747267

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907