Charlton Abbots / Cerletone
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 July 2015 by John Wilkes
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 July 2015 by John Wilkes
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 12925CHA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: Charlton Abbots, Gloucestershire, GL54 5TF
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located 4 km from Winchcombe, 8 km from Cheltenham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Greston [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century [basin only] -- 19th century [base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for the photographs of this church and font.
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There is an entry for Charlton [Abbots] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP0324/charlton-abbots/] [accessed 5 July 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. C13 tub-shaped bowl on a C19 pillared base."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.916857,
-1.951538
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 55′ 0.68″ N,
1° 57′ 5.54″ W
UTM: 30U 572110 5752310
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1949
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and round, with flat cross decoration on top; plaque with date "Easter 1949"
REFERENCES
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002