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

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

CR01: design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of basin - interior

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of church exterior - window

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: the font in the foreground, on the left side

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

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

INFORMATION

FontID: 12979EAS

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael and St. Martin [redundant]

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & St. Martin

Church Location: Eastleach, Gloucestershire GL7 3NW, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Gloucestershire, South West

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

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, near the N arches of the S nave, opposite the S entrance

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs and help in documenting this font.

Church Notes: original church early-12thC; redundant since 1981

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.7453, -1.7085

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 44′ 43.08″ N, 1° 42′ 30.6″ W

UTM: 30U 589163 5733500

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

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-. Accessed: 2018-12-21 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002