Tredington nr. Tewkesbury / Teodechesberie / Teodekesberie

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken on 19 March 2007 by John Wilkes

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken on 19 March 2007 by John Wilkes

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken on 19 March 2007 by John Wilkes

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view of church interior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken on 19 March 2007 by John Wilkes

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken on 19 March 2007 by John Wilkes

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view of font and cover - detail

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12834TRE

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Church Location: Tredington, Gloucestershire GL20 7AB, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Gloucestershire, South West

Directions to Site: Located near Stoke Orchard, 4 km SE of Tewkesbury

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester

Historical Region: Hundred of Tewkesbury, lower division

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: ca. 1700?

Century and Period: 17th - 18th century, Jacobean

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of The Gloucestershire Photo Library [www.allthecotswolds.com], for the photographs of this church and font.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for this Tredington [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SO9029/tredington/] [accessed 4 February 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucestr, vol. 8, 1968 ) notes: "it is clear from architectural evidence that Tredington church had been built by the 12th century" but it states that "The font is of c. 1700", and has no information on the whereabouts of the earlier font(s). Verey & Brooks (1999-2002) have: "Font. Octagonal, of c. 1700." The present baptismal font is a moulded geometric piece in reddish stone that looks like a mirror of itself from the middle down; the pyramidal wooden cover has an octagonal base; Victorian? The whole is raised on an octagonal plinth. [NB: we have no information on the font of the medieval church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.963986, 51.963986

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 57′ 50.35″ N, 2° 8′ 23.36″ W

UTM: 30U 559099 5757382

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: Victorian?

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-01-08 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002