Saintbury

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B01: design element - motifs - floral - flower - square flower - 8

Scene Description: large and deeply carved

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Image Source: digital image of an Illustration in Daubeny (1921)

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BBU01: design element - motifs - diaper

Scene Description: a band of stylised dog-tooth (or saltire?) below the chamfered upper rim

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Image Source: digital image of an Illustration in Daubeny (1921)

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BU01: design element - motifs - geometric

Scene Description: some resembling saltires, six-point stars, etc.

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Image Source: digital image of an Illustration in Daubeny (1921)

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LB01: design element - architectural - buttress - 8

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Image Source: digital image of an Illustration in Daubeny (1921)

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view of church exterior - tower

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, in www.allthecotswolds.com [accessed 21 January 2008]

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view of font

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Image Source: digital image of an Illustration in Daubeny (1921)

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view of font and cover in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, in www.allthecotswolds.com [accessed 21 January 2008]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10234SAI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B4632, 10 km SE of Evesham, by the Worcestershire border
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century [restored], Perpendicular [altered?]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font
Noake (1848) reports "a handsome restored font" in this church at the time of his visit. Illustrated in Daubeny (1921) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. C15. Octagonal bowl with four-leaj flowers on each face and a band of star pattern above and on the chamfer. Octagonal pedestal with attached shafts. Pretty C18 ogee-shaped cover with renewed crowning dove." The font consists of an octagonal basin of tapering sides, raised on a pedestal and a splayed lower base, both octagonal. The decoration has elements of the Decorate period: stylised dog-tooth, saltire or X-motifs, etc., and the others of the Perpendicular proper: the eight large square flowers deeply carved on the basin sides, the buttresses of the base, etc.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

LID INFORMATION

Date: 18th-century?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Daubeny, Ulric, Ancient Cotswold Churches, Cheltenham: J. Burrow, 1921
Noake, John, The rambler in Worcestershire, or, Stray notes on churches and congregations, Worcester: Published and sold by all booksellers, 1848
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002