Alderley / Alrelie
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2018
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Results: 3 records
view of church exterior - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 April 2018 by John Wilkes
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view of church interior - chancel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes April 2007
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 April 2018 by John Wilkes
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 12933ALD
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Kenelm
Church Patron Saints: St. Kenelm [aka Cynehelm, Cynhelm, Kenelme]
Church Location: Alderley, Glocester GL12 7QT, UK -- Tel.: (01453) 842175
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located between the M5 (W) and the A433 (SE), just SE of Wotton-under-Edge, 10 km NE of Chipping Sudbury, 22 km from Stroud
Ecclesiastic Region: Dioxcese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Grimboldestou
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [re-cut in 19th century?], Medieval [altered]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of this site
Church Notes: Church re-built in 1802 but remaining tower from earlier medieval building is mid-15th century
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There is an entry for this Alderley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/ST7690/alderley/] [accessed 19 April 2018], but it mntions neither cleric nor church in it. The basin of the older of two fonts has now a quasi-octagonal appearance, although it must have been square originally, like several others in the area, with scalloped lower sides; the basin is raised on a cluster of a central shaft and four angle colonnettes, raised on a square lower base, and a [later?] quadrangular plinth. Wooden cover, flat and shaped to match the chamfered angles of the altered basin, with metal decorations and ring handle. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: ST7685090802] reports the modern font in it, a "white marble font of 1820". The object is descibed in John Wilkes as a "white marble urn on a fluted column". This same modern font is noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002) with date 1820].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.61595,
-2.3358
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 36′ 57.42″ N,
2° 20′ 8.88″ W
UTM: 30U 545987 5718533
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: square (mounted) [cf. FontNotes]
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002