Hasfield / Hasfelde
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view of church exterior - north view
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "The parish church, called St. Peter's when it was established in the 14th century is now dedicated to St. Mary. It has a square tower which still retains the earlier dedication to St Peter. The tower, which houses the church's four bells, is decorated with crenellations and gargoyle like figures that double as waterspouts. Inside the church are several notable artifacts including three stained glass windows, a Norman font and a monument to lady Pauncefort for sending her "right hand" to Palestine to ransom her lord from the infidels."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Saffron Blaze, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2011 by Saffron Blaze [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hasfield_Parish_Church.jpg] [accessed 6 February 2019]
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view of church interior - looking east
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 May 2016 by Ian S [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4977426] [accessed 6 February 2019]
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: with the font visible at the far end
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view of font and cover - east side
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view of font and cover in context - west side
Scene Description: Source caption: "Tub-shaped font, St Mary's, Hasfield. Believed to be 12th century."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pauline E, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2008 by Pauline E [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/987184] [accessed 6 February 2019]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 12865HAS
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin [formerly St. Peter's]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin [formerly dedicated to St. Peter]
Church Location: Hasfield, Gloucestershire GL19 4LG, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B4213, 10 km NWN of Gloucester, 10 km SW f Tewkesbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Humdred of Westminster, lower division
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
There is an entry for Hasfield [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SO8227/hasfield/] [accessed 6 February 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Tymms (1834) reports a baptismal font "of lead" in Hasfield, but we have no information of any other font in this church except for the Norman one found inside the church. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 8, 1968) notes: "The earliest documentary evidence of a church at Hasfield is the mention of a parson c. 1220. [...] The original fabric was probably 12th-century, and a tub-shaped font of that period survives". Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Low Norman tub-shaped bowl, on a chamfered rectangular plinth." The basin upper rim shows evidence of damage consistent with the forceful removal of the old metal staples of the cover; the inner basin is lead lined. The font cover is round and flat, with metal decorations and handle; appears modern; Victorian?
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.945902,
-2.254263
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 56′ 45.25″ N,
2° 15′ 15.35″ W
UTM: 30U 551257 5755284
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead lining
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern [Victorian?]
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-07-20 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Tymms, Samuel, Family Topographer, being a compendious account of the antient and present state of the counties of England: vol. IV, Oxford circuit, London: Nichols & Son, 1834