Tormarton / Tormentone
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2006
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Results: 6 records
BBL01: design element - motifs - scallop
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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BU01: design element - patterns - ribbed
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of church exterior
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of church interior - chancel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 2 January 2008]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11908TOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (early?) [basin only] [composite font], Transitional / Early English [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalen, Tormarton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the tower
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary Magdalene
Church Address: Tormarton, Badminton GL9 1HT, United Kingdom
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A46, just N of the M4, 12 km E of Bristol, 18 km NNE of Bath
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bristol
Historical Region: Hundred of Eddredestane [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: altered font: the stem and base are of a later date, perhaps Gothic -- disappeared font? (was there a church in Domesday times here?)
Font Notes:
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There is entry for Tormarton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/ST7678/tormarton/] [accessed 27 June 2025]; it reports a priest but not a church in it. A font is listed in Tymms (1834). Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Early C13. square scalloped bowl supported on thin shafts with fillet mouldings." Only the basin of this font is original: square with short sides that end in five-lobe scallop on the lower part, the scallops continuing as ribs on the very pronounced chamfered underbowl with centre ring at the end; stem made up of a central shaft with attached colonnettes, raised on a circular moulded lower base and two-step square plinth; the two parts of the base are of a later date. Square wooden cover, flat, with heavy carving on the surface.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of The Gloucestershire Photo Library, for the photographs of church and font.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: unknown
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Tymms, Samuel, Family Topographer, being a compendious account of the antient and present state of the counties of England: vol. IV, Oxford circuit, London: Nichols & Son, 1834, p. 51 / [http://books.google.com/books?id=qcouAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA51&lpg=PA51&dq=kempsford+church+font&source=web&ots=h2yFXWCzVN&sig=wFjiUVbwBUazMXVSJwmmw5-jmlA] [accessed 23 September 2007]
- Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002, vol. 1: 699