Little Rissington / Risendune [Domesday] / Rissington Parva / Rissington Basset / Risington Parva

Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Standing permission
Results: 5 records
design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - in a square - 8
design element - motifs - moulding - graded
view of church exterior - east view
view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the basin of the font and cover are visible in the left-hand corner
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2002
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2002 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/343061] [accessed 14 December 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 09345RIS
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Little Rissington, Gloucestershire, GL54 2NA, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located just off (W) the A424-A429 crossing
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Salmonsbury [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Slaughter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end, opposite the S entranceway
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Cognate Fonts: The font at nearby Little Barrington is similar
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There is an entry for [Little] Rissington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP1919/little-rissington/] [accessed 14 December 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 6, 1965) notes: "Little Rissington church was among those granted by Ralph Basset, the justiciar, to his son Ralph, a clerk of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and was confirmed to Oseney Abbey in 1151 [...] The south doorway has a round arch of three orders with roll moulding supported on two orders of cylindrical shafts, and is presumably of c. 1200. [...] The church contains a 15th-century font." The VCH entry has a footnote reference to "'Glos. fonts', Trans. B.G.A.S. xlii. 82." Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. C15. Octagonal with quatrefoils with centres of four-leaf flowers. The diametre of the basin is unusually large. It is supported on an octagonal pillar with a moulded and chamfered base." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SP1894319976] notes: "Anglican parish church. C13, C14, C15. Restored c1850 by Francis Niblett. Extended and altered 1883 by W. Bassett Smith. [...] C15 octagonal font with quatrefoils in each side in aisle opposite the south door." The flat wooden font cover decorated with metal reinforcements appears modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.8778,
-1.726
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 52′ 40.08″ N,
1° 43′ 33.6″ W
UTM: 30U 587697 5748214
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-07-09 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002