Great Washbourne / Abbott's Washbourne / Great Washbourn / King's Washbourne / Waseborne
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "The handsome 15th century font, unusually placed in the centre of the chancel."
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2018 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5864950] [accessed 18 December 2018]
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design element - motifs - moulding
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2018 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5864950] [accessed 18 December 2018]
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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle - in a square - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Pankhurst, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2018 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5864950] [accessed 18 December 2018]
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view of church exterior - south door - tympanum
Scene Description: Source caption: "Detail from Great Washbourne Church. Carved detail and a Maltese Cross, the symbol of the Knights Hospitaller order from the tympanum above the south door to St Mary's church, Great Washbourne. The Maltese Cross is the symbol of the Knights Hospitaller order, though I haven't been able to establish if there is a connection with this church."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Halling, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 April 2008 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/778623] [accessed 18 December 2018]
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view of church exterior - south portal
Scene Description: Source caption: "The early Norman South door, with an unusual carved lintel."
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2018 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5864974] [accessed 18 December 2018]
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view of church exterior - north view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2018 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5865000] [accessed 18 December 2018]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2018 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5864997] [accessed 18 December 2018]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "The early Norman chancel arch framing the 15th century font, dramatically set in the centre of the 17th century chancel."
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2018 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5864880] [accessed 18 December 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2018 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5864982] [accessed 18 December 2018]
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design element - architectural - window - trefoiled - 8
Scene Description: on the stem
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: on the lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Pankhurst, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2018 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5864950] [accessed 18 December 2018]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 12815WAS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: "Internally the church is plastered and shows traces of medieval painting. Fragments in the chancel, painted over by 1962, appeared to be 12th-century, with the remains, above them, of the Commandments in English, also painted over by 1962. On the north wall of the nave there was perhaps a 14th-century St. Christopher, and superimposed on it some 15thcentury patterns in red, (fn. 158) fragments of which were visible through the new paint on all four walls in 1962." [cf. VCH entry in FontNotes]
Church Address: Great Washbourne, Gloucestershire, GL20 7AR
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located near Dumbleton, 6 km NE of Ashchurch, 7 km NNW of Winchcomb, 10 km NE of Tewksbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Tewkesbury
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the font from the church of the early-12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for [Great] Washbourne [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SO9834/great-washbourne/] [accessed 18 December 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports "a handsome font" in this church [NB: the church itself appears to be chiefly of two periods: the 12th and 17th centuries]. Betjeman (1958) simply states the location of the font "directly between the small chancel arch and the altar". The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 6, 1965) notes: "The church of St. Mary is a small building most of which survives from the early 12th century. [...] The 15th-century font has an octagonal bowl with quatrefoil panels"; the latter reference is footnoted: "Cf. 'Glos. fonts', Trans. B.G.A.S. xli. 34." Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font, in the centre of the chancel. Perp[endicular] octagonal bowl with quatrefoils on a stem with trefoil-headed panels." [NB: we have no information on the earlier font of this church]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for the photographs of this church and font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 567230 5762434
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.008481, -2.020496
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 0′ 30.53″ N, 2° 1′ 13.79″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat; modern
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Betjeman, John, An American's Guide to English Parish Churches (including the Isle of Man), New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958, p. 173
- Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831, p. 482-484 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=51380] [accessed 15 March 2007]
- Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002, vol. 2: 511