Quenington / Quenintone

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: one at each end of the stem of the base

Image Source: digital photograp[h taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

information

Scene Description: text related to the doorways

Image Source: origin of text unknown -- supplied by John Wilkes, June 2007

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital photograp[h taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: notice the large crack and repair on the right side of the basin

Image Source: digital photograp[h taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal

Image Source: digital photograp[h taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal

Image Source: digital photograp[h taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal - capital

Scene Description: a Green Man

Image Source: digital photograp[h taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograp[h taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograp[h taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograp[h taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograp[h taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograp[h taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5430440] [accessed 24 January 2019]

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view of church exterior - north portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5430442] [accessed 24 January 2019]

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view of church exterior - north portal - tympanum

Image Source: digital photograp[h taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal - tympanum

Image Source: digital photograp[h taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal - tympanum

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5430205] [accessed 24 January 2019]

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view of church exterior - north portal - tympanum - detail

Image Source: digital photograp[h taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal - tympanum - detail

Image Source: digital photograp[h taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograp[h taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5430187] [accessed 24 January 2019]

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view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5430218] [accessed 24 January 2019]

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view of church exterior - south portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5430227] [accessed 24 January 2019]

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view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum

Image Source: digital photograp[h taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5430224] [accessed 24 January 2019]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum - detail

Scene Description: Christ in Majesty?

Image Source: digital photograp[h taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum - detail

Scene Description: animal heads around the archivolt [cf. Iffley west portal, etc.]

Image Source: digital photograp[h taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum - detail

Scene Description: Church building? New Jerusalem?

Image Source: digital photograp[h taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum - detail

Scene Description: angel: symbol for Matthew

Image Source: digital photograp[h taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum - detail

Scene Description: winged lion: symbol for Mark

Image Source: digital photograp[h taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum - detail

Scene Description: winged ox: symbol for Luke

Image Source: digital photograp[h taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum - detail

Scene Description: eagle: symbol for John

Image Source: digital photograp[h taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum - detail

Scene Description: angel located on the bottom left corner of the tympanum, below John's eagle and to the left of Like' winged ox

Image Source: digital photograp[h taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital photograp[h taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

view of font cover

Scene Description: the restored/rebuilt cover with the 1662 date on it

Image Source: digital photograp[h taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

view of font cover - detail

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograp[h taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 12980QUE

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Swithun [aka Swithin] [origi. St. Mary's]

Church Patron Saints: [orig. dedication St Mary's] St. Swithun [aka Swithin] [in 1735+ ]

Church Location: Church Rd, Quenington, Cirencester GL7 5BN, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Gloucestershire, South West

Directions to Site: Located N of the A417, just S of Coln St Aldwyns, 3 km N of Fairford, 13 km E of Cirencester

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester

Historical Region: Hundred of Brightwells Barrow

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 16th - 17th century, Restoration

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

Church Notes: very interesting Norman portals: North door: a tympanum with a Harrowing of Hell scene -- South door: the Coronation of St Mary (?) and the symbols of the four Evangelists [cf. image N070616021 for related info]

Font Notes: Click to view

There is an entry for Quenington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SP1404/quenington/] [accessed 24 January 2019]; it mentions a priest but not a church in it, though there must have been one there. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vo. 7, 1981) notes: "The church at Quenington was presumably served by the priest recorded there in 1086 [...] The church, which was called St. Mary's in the 12th century, [...] was dedicated to ST. SWITHIN by 1735 [...] but it bore an invocation to the Holy Rood in the 18th and early 19th centuries. [...] The font, which is of the later 16th century, has a hood dated 1662". The entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: SP1483703912] notes: "Anglican parish church. Recorded by 1100, chancel windows of C13 and C15, nave windows probably early C17. Restored 1882. [...] Late C16 font with cover of 1662." Verey & Brooks (1999-2002) write: "Font. Post-Reformation, probably late C16. Plain octagonal bowl perpetuating the traditional Gothic shape, but with all carving and ornament omitted. The restored cover is 1662." Baptismal font consisting of a plain octagonal basin with pronounced chamfer on the underbowl, raised on an octagonal stem that is plain but for a moulding at each end; quadrangular lower base; octagonal plinth. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, with metal reinforcements and ring handle; it appears to have been re-built from an original, if the date on it, 1662, is original. [NB: the church has two Norman portals, but we have no information on the iriginal font of this church].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.73366, -1.7866

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 44′ 1.18″ N, 1° 47′ 11.76″ W

UTM: 30U 583793 5732112

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 11.5 - 14.75 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 54 cm*

Basin Depth: 25 cm*

Height of Basin Side: 28 - 29 cm*

Height of Central Column: 38 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 100 cm*

Trapezoidal Basin: 77 - 83 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1662? [re-built?]

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-01-24 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

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