Preston Bagot / Prestetone [Domesday]
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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle - 8
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Image Source: engraving in Notices of the churches of Warwickshire (vol. 1, 1847)
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
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Image Source: engraving in Notices of the churches of Warwickshire (vol. 1, 1847)
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Row17, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 April 2010 by Row17 [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1799824] [accessed 19 July 2014]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: engraving in Notices of the churches of Warwickshire (vol. 1, 1847)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 07290PRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Late Decorated? / Early Perpendicular?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Notes: church originally 12thC; restored 1879
Church Address: Preston Bagot, Warwickshire B95 5EB
Site Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just N of the A4189, 3 km E of Henley-in-Arden, 10 km W of Warwick (dir. Redditch)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Coventry
Historical Region: Hundred of Fernecombe {in Domesday] -- Hundred of Barlichway
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Preston [Bagot] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP1765/preston-bagot/] [accessed 19 July 2014], but neither mentions a church or cleric in it. Notices of the churches of Warwickshire (vol. 1, 1847) reports a churc here "dedicated to All Saints", originally Norman but "lengthened in the fourteenth century [...] The font is octagonal; on each face of the basin is a plain sunk quatrefoil within a circle; beneath the basin, which is raised on a shaft and square base, are a few mouldings." The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 3, 1945) notes on the church here: "The nave dates from the 12th century and has north windows and north and south doorways of about the middle of the century. The chancel is probably an addition of the early 13th century [...] The font is of the 15th century; it has an octagonal bowl with a moulded lower edge and a quatrefoiled circular panel in each face, an octagonal stem and square base with broach stops." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the late Decorated period. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original Norman church here]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 585604 5794242
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.291857, -1.744843
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 17′ 30.69″ N, 1° 44′ 41.43″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Apparatus: no
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
- Warwickshire Natural History and Archaeological Society. Architectural Committee, Notices of the churches of Warwickshire, Rivington, London; [etc.]: Henry T. Cooke, 1847-, vol. 1: 156-161