Longney / Langenei

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design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 24

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design element - architectural - buttress - 8

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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - motifs - tracery

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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view of font

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09876LON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Laurence [earlier St. Helen?]
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence] [medieval dedication may have been to St. Helen]
Church Location: 2 School Lane Cottages, Longney, Gloucester GL2 3SL, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the B4008, 10-11 km SW of Gloucester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Whitstone
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Longney [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SO7612/longney/] [accessed 14 February 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucestershire, vol. 10, 1972) notes: "Elsi, lord of Longney until 1086 or 1087, [...] built a church there and invited St. Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, to consecrate it. [...] No trace of the 11th-century building is to be seen. A rebuilding in the 13th century is represented by the opening from the chancel to the south chapel, a two-bay arcade of two chamfered orders resting on a cylindrical central pier with a moulded capital, and by two plain piscinas in the chancel and chapel. [...] The font, which has an octagonal panelled bowl and buttressed pedestal, was made in the 14th century; [...] from the later 18th century to the later 19th it was in the churchyard, disused" [the VCH footnotes its entry to: " Trans. B.G.A.S., xxxix, 69-70" as source]. Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. C14, octagonal. Shallow panelled bowl, buttressed pedestal with simple blind Dec[orated] tracery." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SO7638112438] notes: "Parish church. C13; early C14 tower; 1873 restoration [...] C14 octagonal stone font with richly panelled bowl and buttressed pedestal." The font consists of an octagonal basin with pronounced mouldings at the upper and lower ends, between which are three trefoiled windows or arches per side; graded underbowl chamfer; the octagonal pedestal, buttressed at the angles, has traceried windows on the panels; plain octagonal lower base; kneeling stone. The upper rim is damaged, with some chunks missing. [NB: we have no information on the font of the 11th-century church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.810181, -2.344008
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 48′ 36.65″ N, 2° 20′ 38.43″ W
UTM: 30U 545224 5740130

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2004-07-22 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002