Purton nr. Gloucester / Perttone
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2017
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Results: 3 records
view of church exterior - east view
Scene Description: the modern church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 23 May 2017 by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com] [replacement photograph]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the modern church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Halling, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 March 2014 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3907887] [accessed 23 May 2017]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 23 May 2017 by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com] [replacement photograph]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 12830PUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Evangelist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Evangelist
Church Location: Riddle Street, Purton, Gloucestershire, GL13 9HS
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A38, on the banks of the Severn, 5 km N of Berkeley, 17 km SSW of Gloucester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Bledisloe [in Domesday]
Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for the photographs of this church and modern font.
Church Notes: present church built 1874
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for this Purton [variant spelling] in the Domesday Survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SO6704/purton/] [accessed 23 May 2017], one of which reports a church and church lands in it. The baptismal in this church font consists of an octagonal basin with plain sides, the upper rim chamfered, the underbowl moulded, raised on a plain stam and a moulded lower base, all octagonal as well. Flat octagonal wooden cover with metal ring handle. Both font and cover appear to be 19th-century, probably contemporary with the building itself, of 1874 [NB: we have no information on the font of the medieval church here reported in the Domesday Survey]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.735474, -2.447848
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 44′ 7.7″ N, 2° 26′ 52.25″ W
UTM: 30U 538128 5731762