Kempsford / Chehemeresforde

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view of church exterior - east view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2014 by John Wilkes for BSI

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view of church exterior - south porch and portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 June 2013 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3516412] [accessed 21 December 2018]

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view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "Norman arch of the entrance door to St Mary's church, Kempsford."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 April 2011 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2417122] [accessed 21 December 2018]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the ca. 1868 font that replaced the now-lost 15th-century Perpendicular one [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 April 2011 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2417122] [accessed 21 December 2018]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the ca. 1868 font that replaced the now-lost 15th-century Perpendicular one [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken in May 2004 by Mary Harris

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12493KEM

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Kempsford, Gloucestershire GL7 4ET, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Gloucestershire, South West

Directions to Site: Located off the A361, about halfway between Crcklade and Lechlade

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester

Historical Region: Hundred of Brightwells Barrow

Font Location in Church: [disappeared]

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mary Harris and to John Wilkes for their photographs of church and (new) font.

Church Notes: church originally 12thC; restored 1858 by G.E. Street

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Kempsford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SU1696/kempsford/] [accessed 18 July 2014], but, though a very large place with 69 households, it mentions neither church nor cleric in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 7, 1981) notes: "Kempsford had a church by the late 11th century when Ernulf of Hesdin granted it with the tithes and the land of the priest to Gloucester Abbey [...] Most of the Norman nave survives and it retains its north and south doorways and four original windows. [...] A new font was made in 1868, [...] replacing an old octagonal one." The Rev. A. B. Mynors [www.kempsfor.net/history/pdf/history-of-kempsford.pdf] [accessed 6 January 2007] notes in his history of Kempsford [undated -- probably ca. 1960]: "The 15th century font with a plain octagonal bowl which had survived the restoration of the church in 1858 was discarded in 1868 in favour of the present font, carved at Latton by William Rosebalde, and no trace of the Perpendicular one can now be discovered" [NB: according to Mynors [cf. supra] the nave is Norman from ca. 1120, but we have no other information on the original font of this church].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.667, -1.7681

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 40′ 1.2″ N, 1° 46′ 5.16″ W

UTM: 30U 585195 5724721

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2018-12-21 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.