Whaddon nr. Gloucester / Wadune
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B01: design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 24
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes March 2007 [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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BU01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded
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LB01: design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 16
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes March 2007 [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes March 2007 [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 12902WHA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Decorated? / Perpendicular?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Margaret
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Church Address: 2 Church Lane, Whaddon, Brookthorpe, Gloucestershire GL4 0UF
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A4173, 5 km S of Gloucester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Dudstone [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original 13thC (?) church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Whaddon [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SO8313/whaddon/] [accessed 8 June 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Verey & Brooks (1999-2002) write: "Font. Perp[endicular], octagonal. Bowl with three trefoil-headed niches on each side, deep moulding below, plainly panelled stem." Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with vertical sides decorated with trefoil arches or windows in each panel; the underbowl has graded moulding; the octagonal stem has double trefoil arches or windows on each side. Plain octagonal wooden cover with [knob?] finial or handle.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecoyswolds.com, for the photograph of this font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 552128 5741375
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.820771, -2.243691
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 49′ 14.78″ N, 2° 14′ 37.29″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002, vol. 2: 803