Stanton nr. Cheltenham

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B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 8

Scene Description: one on each panel of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 April 2009 by Peter Austin [http://www.flickr.com/photos/53366513@N00/3436809071/]

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BU01: design element - motifs - floral

Scene Description: one on each panel of the underbowl; some very weathered, others re-carved?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 April 2009 by Peter Austin [http://www.flickr.com/photos/53366513@N00/3436809071/]

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UB01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - 8

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 22/1/2002)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 09393GLO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Angels

Country Name: England

Location: Gloucestershire, South West

Directions to Site: Located just E of the B4632, 8 km NE of Winchcombe. about 20 km NE of Cheltenham

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, and tp Peter Austin, for their photographs of this font.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Listed in Tymms (1834). Noted and illustrated in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 6 January 2008] Octagonal mounted font of the Perpendicular period. The basin has vertical sides, the panels decorated with deeply carved quatrefoil windows and tracery; the chamfered underbowl had related motifs, now almost totally obliterated; the stem of the base has a blind trefoil arch on each face; short splaying lower base, all of them octagonal. The round inner well of the basin is lead-lined. The upper rim of the basin has a metal staple from the old cover locking hardware. The general state of conservation of this font is dismal, showing that this font spent a long time exposed to the elements at some point in its history.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: three?

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Notes: an iron staple still in the upper rim, evidence of an old cover

REFERENCES

Tymms, Samuel, Family Topographer, being a compendious account of the antient and present state of the counties of England: vol. IV, Oxford circuit, London: Nichols & Son, 1834