Beckford Priory / Beceford
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B01: design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - in a circle - 8
Scene Description: the shape of the floral motif varies
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CR01: design element - motifs - moulding
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LB01: design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8
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LB02: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: on the lower base
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R01: design element - motifs - moulding
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view of font and cover
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view of font
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view of church exterior - portal - detail
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view of church exterior - portal - tympanum
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view of church exterior - lych-gate
Scene Description: originally a sketch by M.P. Buckley
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view of church exterior - portal - tympanum - detail
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view of church exterior - portal - detail
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view of church exterior - tower
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 09784BEC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Priory Church of St. John the Baptist
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Site Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A46, 8 km NE of Tewksbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Tibblestone -- formerly Gloucestershire
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the font(s) from the 8thC minster church and/or the one from the Norman one)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Beckford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SO9735/beckford/] [accessed 5 February 2019]; it reports a church in it. Burgh (1956) writes: "The Font is of the 15th century, octagonal in shape, the panels decorated with encircled quatre-foils, having centres of four-leafed flowers varying somewhat in shape. The pillar has trefoil-headed niches corresponding with panels above, the pedestal and base showing remains of paint which formerly adorned them." [NB: Burgh cites a brochure by H.E. Foll (for sometime proprietor of Beckford Hall) entitled 'Beckford Church in the County of Gloucester' of 1927, as source [NB: Beckford is part of Worcester since 1931]]. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 8, 1968) notes: "There was a minster church at Beckford in the late 8th century. [...] In or before 1071 William FitzOsbern granted the churches of Beckford and Ashton under Hill, together with demesne tithes and 3 yardlands, to his newly-founded abbey at Cormeilles. [...] East of the [south] doorway is a mutilated stoup. The north doorway has been blocked and much altered. A tympanum representing the harrowing of hell survives; below it on the lintel is a leaf pattern. The lintel rests on brackets decorated with carved heads. [...] The 15th-century font has an octagonal bowl and pedestal with enriched faces."
Noted in Brooks & Pevsner (2007): "Octagonal, Perp[endicular; bowl with fleurons in quatrefoils. The pretty cover [...] by Ford Whitcombe & Cogswell [...] 1911-12". The font has a plain chamfered underbowl, with slightly concave sides; the lower base splays out and is octagonal in shape. Flat wooden cover, modern. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original Norman church]
Noted in Brooks & Pevsner (2007): "Octagonal, Perp[endicular; bowl with fleurons in quatrefoils. The pretty cover [...] by Ford Whitcombe & Cogswell [...] 1911-12". The font has a plain chamfered underbowl, with slightly concave sides; the lower base splays out and is octagonal in shape. Flat wooden cover, modern. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original Norman church]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: chalice-shaped, octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1911-1912
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Brooks, Alan, Worcestershire, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 128
- Burgh, David J. de, Beckford Priory and Hall: an Account of its History and Associations, 1956, [unpaged]