Wellesbourne / Waleborne / Wellesborne

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design element - motifs - floral - rosette - in a quatrefoil

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

design element - motifs - quatrefoil

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the Victorian replacement ifont ntroduced in the 19th century

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11521WEL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: 20 Church Street, Wellesbourne, Warwickshire CV35 9LU
Country Name: England
Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on the A429, about 12 km S of Warwick
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Coventry
Historical Region: Hundred of Tremlowe [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: [disappeared?]
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
There is an entry for Wellesbourne [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/XX0000/wellesbourne-hastings-and-mountford/] [accessed 6 January 2015], but it mentions neither cleric not church in it. A font here is described in Gough (1792): "The font at Wellesborne is also octagon, with roses in quatrefoils, on a shaft of quatrefoils." An octagonal baptismal font is shown in the Wellesbourne web site [www.bitinternet.com/~copson/Church_history_website], but it is not the font described in Gough [cf. supra]; it may very well be a Victorian font added during the 19th-century renovation of the church The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 5, 1949) notes: "The church of Wellesbourne was given by Roger, Earl of Warwick, to the canons of Kenilworth Priory and confirmed to them by Henry I. [i.e., 1100-1135] [...] The building dates from the 12th century, but the original plan is lost in later additions and all that survives of that period is the former chancel arch, which has been reset on the north side of the chancel." The VCH entry does not mention a font in Wellesbourne's church. English Heritage [Listing NGR: SP2772455596] (1967) reports: "C19 font to north aisle has tracery panels". [NB: we have no information on the font of the original church here]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.197943, -1.596146
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 11′ 52.6″ N, 1° 35′ 46.13″ W
UTM: 30U 595947 5783983

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: 2015-01-06 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Gough, Richard, "Description of the old font in the Church of East Meon, Hampshire, 1789: with some observations on fonts", X, Archaeologia, 1792, pp. 183-209; r["References"]