Elmstone Hardwicke / Almundestan [Domesday]
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view of font and cover
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design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - 8
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design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - 8
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes April 2007
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view of church exterior - west end
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design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 12962ELM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary Magdalene
Church Address: The Green, Elmstone Hardwicke, Gloucestershire, GL51 9TJ
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 5-6 km NW of Cheltenham, 8 km S of Tewkesbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Deerhurst
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Elmstone [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SO9226/elmstone/] [accessed 31 January 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 8, 1968) notes: "The church was built by the 12th century [...] A sculptured stone with a Saxon spiral pattern similar to the pattern on the font at Deerhurst stands in the west end of the church. It has been suggested that it was the base of the Deerhurst font, but from its shape it is more likely to have been the base of a cross. [...] The 15thcentury font has an octagonal bowl with ornamented panels." Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. C15, octagonal. The bowl has quatrefoil panels with centres of four-leaf flowers and roses. Similar decoration on the chamfer; stem with ogee trefoil-headed panels. C18 cover. The wooden cover is octagonal, with finial/handle. [NB: we have no information on the earlier font of this church]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for the photographs of this church and font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 560657 5753893
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.932452, -2.117762
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 55′ 56.83″ N, 2° 7′ 3.94″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 18th century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002, vol. 2: 357