Elkstone / Elchestane
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Pictured is the 15th Century font in typical Gloucestershire style."
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hugh Llewelyn, 2016
Image Source: Source caption: "Pictured is the 15th Century font in typical Gloucestershire style."
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design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - in a circle - in a square - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hugh Llewelyn, 2016
Image Source: Source caption: "Pictured is the 15th Century font in typical Gloucestershire style."
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design element - motifs - floral - square flower - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hugh Llewelyn, 2016
Image Source: Source caption: "Pictured is the 15th Century font in typical Gloucestershire style."
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view of church exterior - south portal - archivolt - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Elkstone, the church of St. John the Evangelist: Norman tympanum in the south porch. A selection of beakheads above the tympanum. A snake looks at a lion while it eats its own tail."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2018 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5806176] [accessed 30 January 2019]
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view of church exterior - south portal - capital
Scene Description: Source caption: "Pictured is one of the Norman (1160) beakheads of the south doorway capitals. The two are said to have represented the founder, Richard of Cormeilles, and his wife. I think this one is the wife! "
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hugh Llewelyn, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2016 by Hugh Llewelyn [www.flickr.com/photos/58433307@N08/29854753902] [accessed 30 January 2019]
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view of church exterior - south portal - capital
Scene Description: Source caption: "Pictured is one of the Norman (1160) beakheads of the south doorway capitals. The two are said to have represented the founder, Richard of Cormeilles, and his wife. I think this one is the former."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hugh Llewelyn, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2016 by Hugh Llewelyn [www.flickr.com/photos/58433307@N08/29675105370] [accessed 30 January 2019]
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view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum
Scene Description: Source caption: "Pictured is the arch and tympanum, showing Christ in Majesty, of the Norman (1160) south doorway."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hugh Llewelyn, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2016 by Hugh Llewelyn [www.flickr.com/photos/58433307@N08/29341346534] [accessed 30 January 2019]
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view of church exterior - south portal - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Pictured is the arch and tympanum, showing Christ in Majesty, of the Norman (1160) south doorway."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hugh Llewelyn, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2016 by Hugh Llewelyn [www.flickr.com/photos/58433307@N08/29341976163] [accessed 30 January 2019]
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view of church exterior - south portal
Scene Description: Source caption: "Pictured is the Norman (1160) south doorway, once open but enclosed by the 13yh Century porch."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hugh Llewelyn, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2016 by Hugh Llewelyn [www.flickr.com/photos/58433307@N08/29675107130] [accessed 30 January 2019]
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view of church exterior - north view - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Pictured is the columbarium (dovecot) on the north wall where the original Norman central tower once stood until it collapsed in the 13th Century."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hugh Llewelyn, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2016 by Hugh Llewelyn [www.flickr.com/photos/58433307@N08/29854761572] [accessed 30 January 2019]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "12th Century Norman (1160) nave and chancel, 13th Century Early English porch and 15th Century Perpendicular tower which replaced the original Norman central tower when it collapsed in the 13th Century. The church was restored in 1850."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hugh Llewelyn, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2016 by Hugh Llewelyn [www.flickr.com/photos/58433307@N08/29341989453] [accessed 30 January 2019]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "Pictured is the Norman (1160) nave looking towards the west tower and window. The box pews are 18th Century."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hugh Llewelyn, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2016 by Hugh Llewelyn [www.flickr.com/photos/58433307@N08/29885523681] [accessed 30 January 2019]
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view of church interior - chancel arch - south side - label stop
Scene Description: Source caption: "Pictured is the Dragonhead stop on one end of the Norman (1160) chancel arch."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hugh Llewelyn, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2016 by Hugh Llewelyn [www.flickr.com/photos/58433307@N08/29885520381 [accessed 30 January 2019]
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view of church interior - chancel arch and east end
Scene Description: Source caption: "Pictured is the Norman (1160) chancel arches and cross-vaulted bay where the central tower had been located before it collapsed in the 13th Century."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hugh Llewelyn, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2016 by Hugh Llewelyn [www.flickr.com/photos/58433307@N08/29854738692 [accessed 30 January 2019]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Pictured is the Norman (1160) nave and chancel with 18th Century box pews."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hugh Llewelyn, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2016 by Hugh Llewelyn [www.flickr.com/photos/58433307@N08/29854730952] [accessed 30 January 2019]
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design element - motifs - panel - rectangular - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hugh Llewelyn, 2016
Image Source: Source caption: "Pictured is the 15th Century font in typical Gloucestershire style."
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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hugh Llewelyn, 2016
Image Source: Source caption: "Pictured is the 15th Century font in typical Gloucestershire style."
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06736ELK
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Late Decorated? / Early Perpendicular?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Evangelist
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Evangelist
Church Notes: church well worth a visit: great late-Norman work of ca. 1160? [cf. CRSBI entry for details, photos, etc.]
Church Address: Elkstone, Cheltenham GL53 9PD, UK
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just E of the A417, 13 km ESE of Gloucester, 11 km S of Cheltenham. 13 km NW of Cirencester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Rapsgate
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the late-12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Elkstone [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SO9612/elkstone/] [accessed 30 January 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) note the baptismal font here, a "handsome example of the close of the 14th cent", a noteworthy example from the Decorated period. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 7, 1981) notes: "The church at Elkstone dates from the later 12th century. [...] Although small the church is notable for its sculptural decoration, including that of the corbel table and the south doorway, which has a carved tympanum depicting Christ in Majesty. [...] The church has an octagonal font of the 15th century." Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. C15. Octagonal bowl with a quatrefoil on each face; good, and typical of Gloucestershire." [NB: the original church dated to the Norman period, but we have no information of the earlier font]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 565564 5740212
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.8089, -2.049
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 48′ 32.04″ N, 2° 2′ 56.4″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, with rounded [crown?] upper level; appears modern
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 199, 200
- Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002, vol. 1: 358