Long Newnton
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2004
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design element - architectural - window - quatrefoiled (with rose in the centre) - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 10199NEW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity
Church Location: Crudwell Ln, Long Newnton, Tetbury GL8 8RS, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located off the B4014, 3 km SE of Tetbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century [re-tooled?], Perpendicular [altered?]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font
Font Notes:
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No entry found for Long Newnton in the Domesday survey. Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Perp[endicular] but completely reset by Wyatt" [i.e., T.H. Wyatt, of Wyatt & Brandon, Victorain architects specialising in church buildings]. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: ST9096392454] mentions no font in it. Baptismal font of the Perpendicular style; the font consists of an octagonal basin of vertical sides, each decorated with a quatrefoil window with a rosette inside, the upper rim chamfered, the underbowl with a graded chamfer; octagonal centre ring moulding; plain octagonal pedestal base; moulded lower base, also octagonal. Wooden pyramidal font cover with dove finial, eight-sided, probably 17th or 18th century.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.630824, -2.131954
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 37′ 50.96″ N, 2° 7′ 55.03″ W
UTM: 30U 560080 5720336
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-18th century?
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: yes [probably counterweight]
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002