Woolstone nr. Cheltenham / Olsendone

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design element - motifs - panel - 8

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com] [accessed 6 April 2007]
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view of church exterior - south view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007
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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Interior of Woolstone church. The nave and chancel of St Martin's church, Woolstone."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Halling, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 March 2008 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/713012] [accessed 21 June 2015
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view of font and cover in context

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Image Source: digital photograph [ref.#1558-03032007] by David Ross 2007 in www.britainexpress.com] [accessed 6 April 2007]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 12927WOO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Martin of Tours
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: Woolstone, Gloucestershire, GL52 9RG
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A435, just N of Bishop's Cleeve, 8 km N of Cheltenham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Deerhurst
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1499?
Century and Period: 15th century (late?), Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, and to David Ross, of www.britainexpress.com, for the photographs of this font.
Font Notes:
There is an entry for this Woolstone [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SO9630/woolstone/] [accessed 21 June 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 8, 1968) notes: "The church of St. Martin [...] was described as new built in 1499 [...] and the surviving fabric is mainly 15th-century or later. [,,,] The tall octagonal font has panelled sides and a deep chamfered base and no pedestal." The VCH entry (ibid.) further notes: "The 14th-century attribution in 'Glos. fonts', Trans. B.G.A.S. xlix. 138–9, seems unlikely." Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Late C14. Tall octagonal bowl with deep-chamfered base, each face decorated with a plain rectangular moulded panel." Octagonal tub harking back at the one-piece round tubs of the Norman period; the only ornamentation consists of shallow rectangular panels on the sides. The plain wooden cover is octagonal and flat.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.970528, -2.05818
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 58′ 13.9″ N, 2° 3′ 29.45″ W
UTM: 30U 564698 5758179

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-07-19 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002