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 church exterior - lych-gate

Scene Description: originally a sketch by M.P. Buckley

Image Source: originally a sketch by M.P. Buckley -- photographed (?) by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

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view of church exterior - portal - detail

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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 - portal - tympanum - detail

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view of church exterior - tower

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view of font

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09784BEC

Church/Chapel: Priory Church of St. John the Baptist

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Country Name: England

Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off the A46, 8 km NE of Tewksbury

Historical Region: Hundred of Tibblestone -- formerly Gloucestershire

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, for his photographs of church and font.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: three?

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted) -- chalice-shaped

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-. Accessed: 2019-02-05 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Brooks, Alan, Worcestershire, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2007

Burgh, David J. de, Beckford Priory and Hall: an Account of its History and Associations, 1956