Lasborough / Lessedeberge

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of St Mary, Lasborough. The font. A plain circular bowl on pedestal, considered to be of Norman origin."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2017 by Alan Murray-Rust [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5448979] [accessed 20 February 2019]

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design element - motifs - moulding - flat moulding

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of St Mary, Lasborough. The font. A plain circular bowl on pedestal, considered to be of Norman origin."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2017 by Alan Murray-Rust [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5448979] [accessed 20 February 2019]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2008 by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2017 by Alan Murray-Rust [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5449010] [accessed 20 February 2019]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2017 by Alan Murray-Rust [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5448959] [accessed 20 February 2019]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2008 by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

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view of font

Image Source: drawing by Edward Wyatt in 'Church architecture' [http://web.ukonline.co.uk/prestbury/0102/pagei.htm]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11708LAS

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Lasborough, Tetbury GL8 8UF, UK -- Tel.: 01454 219236

Country Name: England

Location: Gloucestershire, South West

Directions to Site: Located nr. Westonbirt, off the A4135 and A46 confluence, W of the A433, 8 km W of Tetbury and in its municipality, about 20 km WSW of Cirencester

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester

Historical Region: Hundred of Longtree

Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 12th century, Norman

Cognate Fonts: The font at Great Witcombe is a modern replica of this one [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font

Church Notes: Domesday-time church likely, as priest reported in the survey; derelict by the 1820s; demolished and re-built 1860s

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Lasborough [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/ST8294/lasborough/] [accessed 20 February 2019]; it mentions a priest but not a church in it, though there must have been one there. Noted in the Victoria County History (1976): "A new font was given by the rector in 1861, and the old font, presumably from the original church, stood in the churchyard until 1903 when it was moved to Great Witcombe. It was reinstated in Lasborough church in 1909." [A drawing of the old font can be found in Edward Wyatt's 'Church architecture' [http://web.ukonline.co.uk/prestbury/0102/pagei.htm]. Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Norman cylindrical bowl"; later, in their entry for Great Witcombe, they add: "Witcombe's C15 font was given to St Andrew, Churchdown". The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: ST8218594140] notes: "Small Anglican church. Medieval foundation but completely rebuilt 1861-2 [...] Mostly C19 fittings with older altar rail and possibly Norman plain font." The font consists of a bucket-shaped basin raised on a cylindrical stem and a quadrangular lower base; there appears to be a moulding at either end of the stem; the upper surface of the rim shows the remains of the metal staples from the old font.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.64555, -2.2586

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 38′ 43.98″ N, 2° 15′ 30.96″ W

UTM: 30U 551298 5721877

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2006-04-19 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002