Coln St. Dennis / Colne [Domesday]

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view of font and cover

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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, 2007 [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 12967COL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James the Great
Church Patron Saints: St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder] [St. Katherine's in the 13thC]
Church Location: Coln St Dennis, Gloucestershire GL54 3JU
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located off the A429, 5 km SW of Northleach, 11 km NE of Cirencester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Deerhurst
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century [re-cut -- 15th-century base] [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.
Church Notes: The VCH notes: "The church of ST. JAMES THE GREAT (fn. 178) was called St. Katherine's in the late 13th century, (fn. 179) St. Dennis's in the 18th, (fn. 180) and was thought to have once borne an invocation to St. Kenelm." [cf. VCH entry in FontNotes]
Font Notes:
There is an an entry for Coln [St Dennis] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SP0810/coln-st-dennis/] [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: "Architectural evidence shows that there was a church at Coln St. Dennis by the early 12th century, and perhaps earlier. [...] The older features of the church are characteristic of the earlier 12th century. [...] The font, which in 1891 was outside the church, [...] has a tub-shaped 12th-century bowl, chamfered into scallops to fit an octagonal pedestal"; this latter reference is footnoted: "'Glos. fonts', Trans. B.G.A.S. xxxvi. 176." Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Plain Norman tub-shaped bowl, later chamfered into eight roughly shaped scallops to fit the 15th C octagonal pedestal." The wooden cover is octagonal and modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.796864, -1.876698
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 47′ 48.71″ N, 1° 52′ 36.11″ W
UTM: 30U 577463 5739042

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped [re-cut]
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round [re-cut at undebowl]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
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