Gayton nr. Stafford / Gaitone

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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 21 August 2013 by Juan Antonio Olañeta for BSI

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view of basin

Scene Description: notice the thickness of the basin sides and the smallness of the inner basin [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 21 August 2013 by Juan Antonio Olañeta for BSI

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 January 2006 by Geoff Pick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/119573] [accessed 31 August 2013]

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2013 by Juan Antonio Olañeta for BSI

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2013 by Juan Antonio Olañeta for BSI

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07179GAY

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter [cf. FontNotes]

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter [cf. FontNotes]

Church Location: Church Lane, Gayton, Staffordshire, ST18 0HL

Country Name: England

Location: Staffordshire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off the A51, 7 km NE of Stafford

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lichfield

Historical Region: Hundred of Pirehill

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th - 16th century/ 19th century [composite font?, Late Medieval [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Juan Antonio Olañeta, of www.claustro.com, for his photographs of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Lewis Dictionary of 1848 gives the dedication of this church as St. John the Baptist. A font here is listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. The font is not mentioned in the CRSBI (2008) entry for this church, where it is noted that the only Norman remain is the overly restored chancel arch. The present font consists of a tub-shaped basin of extremely thick sides, all plain; raised on two octagonal blocks. The basin of the font is certainly not Norman; it may be late-Medieval or even Victorian; the three parts of the font did probably not belong together originally but were brought together later.[NB: we have no information on the font of the original Norman church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.853989, -2.038569

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 51′ 14.36″ N, 2° 2′ 18.85″ W

UTM: 30U 564739 5856461

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

REFERENCES

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2013-08-31 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.

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

Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1848-1849