Whatcote / Quatercote
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2006
Image and permission received (e-mail of 17 March 2006)
Results: 4 records
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)
view of church exterior - north portal
![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]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150208025_compressed.png)
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
INFORMATION
Font ID: 07286WHA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: Church Lane, Whatcote, Shipston-On-Stour, CV36 5EE
Site Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: damaged font / repaired font -- disppeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here?)
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 30U 598200 5772912
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.098042, -1.566392
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 5′ 52.95″ N, 1° 33′ 59.01″ W
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-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 224