Great Washbourne / Abbott's Washbourne / Great Washbourn / King's Washbourne / Waseborne

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design element - architectural - window - trefoiled - 8

Scene Description: on the stem

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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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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: on the lower base

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle - in a square - 8

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view of church exterior - north view

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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 - southeast view

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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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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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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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INFORMATION

FontID: 12815WAS
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Great Washbourne, Gloucestershire, GL20 7AR
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
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
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for the photographs of this church and font.
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]
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]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.008481, -2.020496
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 0′ 30.53″ N, 2° 1′ 13.79″ W
UTM: 30U 567230 5762434

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-. Accessed: 2012-07-17 00:00:00. 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
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
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002