Wellesbourne / Waleborne / Wellesborne
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the Victorian replacement ifont ntroduced in the 19th century
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © www.bitinternet.com/~copson/Church_history_website, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph in www.bitinternet.com/~copson/Church_history_website
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11521WEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: [disappeared?]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: 20 Church Street, Wellesbourne, Warwickshire CV35 9LU, UK
Site Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
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]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? : two fonts, the original 12thC (?) and the Perp (?) now only a Victorian replacement?
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 30U 595947 5783983
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.197943, -1.596146
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 11′ 52.6″ N, 1° 35′ 46.13″ W
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-. 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; p. 193