Ratley / Rotelei
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2006
Image and permission to reproduced received (e-mail of 17 March 2006)
Results: 3 records
view of church exterior - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jeremy Bolwell, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 May 2010 by Jeremy Bolwell [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1850256] [accessed 13 January 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David P Howard, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 May 2013 by David P Howard [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3438611] [accessed 13 January 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the re-cut (?) font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission to reproduced received (e-mail of 17 March 2006)
INFORMATION
FontID: 11584RAT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter ad Vincula
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: High Street, Ratley, West Midlands, OX15 6DS
Country Name: England
Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located just off (N) the A422, about 20 km ESE of Stratford-upon-Avon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Coventry
Historical Region: Hundred of Hunesberi [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Kington
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for the recent [2006] photograph of this font.
There is an entry for Ratley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP3847/ratley/] [accessed 13 January 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 5, 1949) notes: "Thomas de Arderne in 1286 granted the advowson of Ratley church to the Abbey of Stoneleigh [...] The whole fabric, except the 15th-century porch, dates from the 14th century but the foundations may be partly on the lines of an earlier building. It was begun about 1340 and continued in several spells, finishing with the top stage of the tower, which is late-14th-century work [...] The font, probably medieval, is very plain: the bowl is octagonal and tapers downwards; the round stem and base are modern." English Heritage [Listing NGR: SP3834547334] (1967) reports: "font has plain octagonal bowl, possibly recut, on renewed stem". A smallish octagonal basin with plain tapering sides, totally devoid of ornamentation; may have been re-cut, if the original was from the medieval church; modern pedestal base; modern wooden cover, pyramidal.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.1231,
-1.4414
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 7′ 23.16″ N,
1° 26′ 29.04″ W
UTM: 30U 606702 5775876
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2015-01-13 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
