Preston Bagot / Prestetone [Domesday]
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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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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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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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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 April 2010 by Row17 [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1799824] [accessed 19 July 2014]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 07290PRE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Preston Bagot, Warwickshire B95 5EB
Country Name: England
Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands
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
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Late Decorated? / Early Perpendicular?
Church Notes: church originally 12thC; restored 1879
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
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.291857,
-1.744843
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 17′ 30.69″ N,
1° 44′ 41.43″ W
UTM: 30U 585604 5794242
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-. Accessed: 2014-07-19 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Warwickshire Natural History and Archaeological Society. Architectural Committee, Notices of the churches of Warwickshire, Rivington, London; [etc.]: Henry T. Cooke, 1847-
