Meysey Hampton / Hantone / Maiseyhampton / Hampton Meysey
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2015
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view of church exterior - south view
![showing the south portal on the left, and the priest's portal [opening into the south side of the chancel] on the right](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140712003_compressed.png)
Scene Description: showing the south portal on the left, and the priest's portal [opening into the south side of the chancel] on the right
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 July 2014 for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southwest end
Scene Description: showing the south portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004 by John Wilkes in www.allthecotswolds.com
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - monument
Scene Description: Photo caption: "Meysey Hampton church. Tomb of the de Meysey heiress, dated about 1310"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Derek Meek, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2004 by Derek Meek [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meysey_Hampton_church_-_geograph.org.uk_-_127532.jpg] [accessed 12 July 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font with an octagonal cover, modern as well, in 2004
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004 by John Wilkes in www.allthecotswolds.com
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font and its cover, also modern, in 2015 -- the new round cover replaces the former octagonal lid that was in place in 2004 -- the scalloped edges of the inner basin liner can now be seen around the contour of the new cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2015 by John Wilkes
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 12492MEY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Church Street, Meysey Hampton, Gloucestershire GL7 5LS, England
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the A417, 8 km E of Cirencester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Gersdones
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of the church and the new font
Church Notes: church originally 13thC, consecrated 1269; restored 1870s
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Mesey Hampton [variant spelling] in Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SU1199/meysey-hampton/] [accessed 12 July 2014]; it mentions a priest in it, but no church or churchlands. Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Fine font by Brooks with bold foliage carving" [NB: James Brooks, architect (1825-1901) [source: OxfordDNB]]. The font now in this church is a 19th-century Victorian replacement, probably of the 1870s: a square bains with a deeply-carved vine all around its sides, raised on a central shaft and four angle colonnettes, all with moulded capitals and bases, on a quadrangular plinth. Wooden octagonal cover, flat and decorated with metal ornamentation and handle; probably of the same period [NB: the fabric of the church goes back to the 13th century, and there was a priest in this place in 1086, but we have no information of the earlier font(s) of this church].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.6992, -1.832
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 41′ 57.12″ N, 1° 49′ 55.2″ W
UTM: 30U 580719 5728229
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002