Berkeley / Berchelai

Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2017
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Results: 12 records
LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
design element - motifs - moulding - graded
design element - motifs - scallop - double
view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery
view of church exterior - south view - detail
view of church interior - chancel - rood-screen, choir-screen; iconostasis
view of church interior - nave - looking east
view of church interior - window - stained glass
view of font
view of font - upper view
view of font and cover
view of font and cover in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Eastman House, 2001
Image Source: elatin on glass negative ca. 1891-1912 by Catharine Weed Ward [http://www.geh.org/ar/strip14/htmlsrc/m198122911922_ful.html#topofimage] [accessed 11 December 2008]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 06738BER
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Church Lane, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, GL13 9BN
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located off the corner of High St with the B4066 [aka Canonbury St), on the E bank of the Severn, W of the A38 and the M5
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Berkeley
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Late Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to David Ross, of Britain Express Ltd. [www.britainexpress.com], and to John Wilkes for their photographs of this church and font
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There is an entry for Berkeley [variant spelling] in the Domesday Survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST6899/berkeley/] [accessed 17 May 2017], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. A font here is noted, with an engraving by J. Basire, in Gough (1792). In Tymms (1834). Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Mid-C12 square Norman bowl with scalloped bottom edge, supported on corner shafts with moulded capitals and bases and keeled outer angles." The font consists of a quadrangular [square?] basin with vertical sides, plain but for a fringe of inverted round arches around the lower end, raised on a central shaft and four angle colonnettes, and a square lower base; the whole is raised on a quadrangular plinth. The inner well of the basin is also quadrangular [square?].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.689223,
-2.457373
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 41′ 21.2″ N,
2° 27′ 26.54″ W
UTM: 30U 537509 5726613
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: lead lining
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: square and flat; appears modern
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Gough, Richard, "Description of the old font in the Church of East Meon, Hampshire, 1789: with some observations on fonts", X, Archaeologia, 1792, pp. 183-209; r["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
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002