Whatcote / Quatercote
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2006
Image and permission received (e-mail of 17 March 2006)
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view of church exterior - north portal
Scene Description: Source caption: "This blocked doorway is in the north wall of the church of St Peter." The VCH dates it to the mid-12thC [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Dibb, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 March 2012 by Michael Dibb [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2917671] [accessed 15 January 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - north view
Scene Description: the blocked north portal, approximately in the middle of the nave volume, is partially covered by the tree in this image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Stowell, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2006 by David Stowell [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/179201] [accessed 15 January 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David P Howard, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 April 2010 by David P Howard [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1785755] [accessed 15 January 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 17 March 2006)
INFORMATION
FontID: 07286WHA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Church Lane, Whatcote, Shipston-On-Stour, CV36 5EE
Country Name: England
Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located just SW of Oxhill, E of the A429, about 16 km ESE of Stratford upon Avon, 25 km ESS of Warwick
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Coventry
Historical Region: Hundred of Fexhole [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Kington
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
There is an entry for Whatcote [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP2944/whatcote/] [accessed 15 January 2015]; it mentions a priest, but not a church in it, though there probably was one there. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Norman period in this church. The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 5, 1949) informs: "In 1086 there was a priest attached to the manor of Whatcote [...] The nave dates from early to mid-12th century, the north doorway remaining in place, and probably two windows. [...] The church was damaged by an enemy bomb in 1941. The south wall of the nave west of the porch was completely destroyed as well as part of the porch, and also the west half of the nave roof […] The fittings in the church have been largely injured or destroyed. The font is a plain round one of uncertain age: the bowl is made of a very hard, gritty stone with thin sides (2 in.) and has a chamfered lower edge. The stem is plain […] It was broken by the bomb but has been repaired".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.098042,
-1.566392
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 5′ 52.95″ N,
1° 33′ 59.01″ W
UTM: 30U 598200 5772912
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and round, with a low decorative centre
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2008-06-29 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907