Stanton nr. Cheltenham
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2002
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Results: 5 records
B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 8
Scene Description: one on each panel of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Austin, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 April 2009 by Peter Austin [http://www.flickr.com/photos/53366513@N00/3436809071/]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
BU01: design element - motifs - floral
Scene Description: one on each panel of the underbowl; some very weathered, others re-carved?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Austin, 2009
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2002
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2002
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2002
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 22/1/2002)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 09393GLO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael & All Angels
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just E of the B4632, 8 km NE of Winchcombe. about 20 km NE of Cheltenham
Additional Comments: damaged font: very weathered all over -- exposed to the elements for a long time?
Font Notes:
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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.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, and tp Peter Austin, for their photographs of this font.
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, p. 51 / [http://books.google.com/books?id=qcouAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA51&lpg=PA51&dq=kempsford+church+font&source=web&ots=h2yFXWCzVN&sig=wFjiUVbwBUazMXVSJwmmw5-jmlA] [accessed 23 September 2007]