Eastleach Martin / Botherop / Bouthrop / East Leach Martin / Lecce
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B01: design element - motifs - floral - flower - in a quatrefoil - 8
Scene Description: one on each panel of the octagonal basin
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CR01: design element - motifs - moulding
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view of font and cover
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view of basin - interior
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view of church exterior - window
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view of church exterior - north view
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: the font in the foreground, on the left side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, 2007 [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 12979EAS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2007-06-02
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael and St. Martin [redundant]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, near the N arches of the S nave, opposite the S entrance
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael & St. Martin
Church Notes: original church early-12thC; redundant since 1981
Church Address: Eastleach, Gloucestershire GL7 3NW, UK
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 200 yards across from Eastleach Turville, near the county border with Oxfordshire
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Brightwells-Barrow
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the early-12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Eastleach [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP1905/eastleach-turville/] [accessed 18 July 2014], but it mentions neither church nor priest in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 7, 1981) notes: "The church of Eastleach Martin was granted by the lord of the manor, Richard son of Pons, to Great Malvern Priory about 1120 [...] The font has an octagonal bowl of the 15th century." The present font here is noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. C15. Octagonal, with quatrefoils." Baptismal font probably of the 15th century in the Perpendicular style; the sides of the octagonal basin are decorated with floral motifs inscribed in quatrefoils, themselves in square panels all around; the octagonal stem is plain but for a thin moulding where it meets the lower end of the plain and slightly concave underbowl chamfer; the moulded lower is also octagonal, as is the flat wooden 19th-century cover.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs and help in documenting this font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 589163 5733500
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.7453, -1.7085
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 44′ 43.08″ N, 1° 42′ 30.6″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead lin
Rim Thickness: 9 - 12 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 50 cm
Basin Depth: 29 cm
Basin Total Height: 51 cm
Height of Base: 54 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 105 cm
Trapezoidal Basin: 68 - 74 cm
Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th century?
Material: wood, oak?
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. 1: 349