Fairford / Fareforde
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Ross & Britain Express Ltd., 2004
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design element - architectural - window - quatrefoiled (with rose in the centre) - 8
![one of them is supposed to represent the White Rose or Yorkist Badge [cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1070610008_compressed.png)
Scene Description: one of them is supposed to represent the White Rose or Yorkist Badge [cf. Font notes]
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design element - motifs - moulding
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design element - architectural - panel - trefoiled - 8
Scene Description: on the upper half of the stem
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: around the centre of the stem
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, June 2007 [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06742FAI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2007-06-02
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: late-15thC wool-church; restored 15thC glass
Church Address: High Street, Fairford, Gloucestershire, GL7 4AF, UK
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A417, 17 km N of Swindon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Brightwells Barrow
Additional Comments: altered font (the upper half of the font has been drastically cleaned and the stone shows now lighter than the base) -- disappeared font? (the one from the church reported in theDomesday survey -- since a priest was also included, it was perhaps pre-Conquest)
Font Notes:
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There are three entries for Fairford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP1501/fairford/] [accessed 13 July 2014], one of which reports a priest, a church and churchlands in it. The Gentleman's Magazine (issue of July-Dec, 1856: 98) reports that the Archaeological Institute received "an interesting portfolio of drawings of painted glass, sculptures, the font, and other details of Fairford, Gloucestershire" from a Miss Kymer. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Octagonal late C15 font, with the usual quatrefoil decoration, the face towards the S[outh] door showing the Yorkist badge of the Sun in Splendour.". The font is octagonal with vertical sides, each deeply carved with a rosette in a quatrefoil window; moulded and piping on the underbowl chamfer; octagonal base of two volumes. Octagonal prismatic font cover, of oak. [NB: we have no information on the font of the Domesday-time church here].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, and to David Ross, of www.britainexpress.com, for their help in documenting this font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 584097 5729312
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.708436, -1.782868
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 42′ 30.37″ N, 1° 46′ 58.33″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: no lining
Basin Depth: 36 cm
Height of Basin Side: 37 cm
Basin Total Height: 66 cm
Height of Base: 57 cm
Height of Central Column: 27 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 123 cm
Trapezoidal Basin: 86 - 92 cm
Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site
LID INFORMATION
Date: 18th-19th century?
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
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. 200
- Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002, vol. 1:363