Duntisbourne Abbots

Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Standing permission
Results: 5 records
B01: design element - motifs - foliage
CR01: design element - motifs - moulding
LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
R01: design element - motifs - moulding - flat moulding
INFORMATION
FontID: 10231DUN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A417, 8 km NW of Cirencester
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1200?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman / Transitional?
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
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
Illustrated in Daubeny (1921). Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font, c.1200, the bowl ornamented in low relief with vigorous three-lobed foliage." This same sourcesuggest this font may have influenced that at nearby Duntisbourne Rouse. Baptismal font probably of the late Norman/Transitional period; the basin is cylindrical with tapering sides decorated with nicely-rendered trefoil foliage motif; plain chamfered underbowl with roll moulding at bottom; raised on a plain pedestal and a moulded lower base, both circular. Wooden font cover, flat and round, with metal decorations and ring handle.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Daubeny, Ulric, Ancient Cotswold Churches, Cheltenham: J. Burrow, 1921
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002