Saintbury
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Results: 7 records
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 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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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
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]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 10234SAI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century [restored], Perpendicular [altered?]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B4632, 10 km SE of Evesham, by the Worcestershire border
Additional Comments: altered font / restored font
Font Notes:
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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.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font
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, plate
- Noake, John, The rambler in Worcestershire, or, Stray notes on churches and congregations, Worcester: Published and sold by all booksellers, 1848, p. 232
- Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002, vol. 1: 586