Elmstone Hardwicke / Almundestan [Domesday]

Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007
Standing permission
Results: 5 records
design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8
design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - 8
design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - 8
view of church exterior - west end
INFORMATION
FontID: 12962ELM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary Magdalene
Church Location: The Green, Elmstone Hardwicke, Gloucestershire, GL51 9TJ
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
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
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
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 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]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.932452,
-2.117762
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 55′ 56.83″ N,
2° 7′ 3.94″ W
UTM: 30U 560657 5753893
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-. Accessed: 2012-07-18 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002