Barcheston / Bercheston / Berricestone / Berricestune

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches or windows - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 28 June 2011 by Aidan McRae Thomson, Warwickshire Churches [http://warwickshirechurches.weebly.com/barcheston---st-martin.html] [accessed 19 December 2014]

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design element - motifs - ball, bead or pellet

Scene Description: some rather irregular [are some meant to be floral motifs?]

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design element - motifs - floral - ball flower

Scene Description: several

Image Source: digital photograph in Oxfordshire Church Illustrations

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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: a thick one framing the lower base

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human figure - grotesque or fantastic - head

Scene Description: several

Image Source: digital photograph in Oxfordshire Church Illustrations

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symbol - cross - saltire-like - 8

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view of church exterior - south view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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view of font

Image Source: B&W photograph taken between 1900 and 1930, Warwickshire Museums; Warwickshire County Record Office [ref.: PH210/20 (50/11589)] [www.windowsonwarwickshire.org.uk] [accessed 19 December 2014]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2011 by Aidan McRae Thomson, Warwickshire Churches [http://warwickshirechurches.weebly.com/barcheston---st-martin.html] [accessed 19 December 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13063BAR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Martin

Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours

Church Location: Barcheston, Warwickshire CV36 5AY

Country Name: England

Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located just S of the B4035, 2-3 km SE of Shipston on Stour

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Coventry

Historical Region: Hundred of Barcheston [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Kinfton

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave, S side, just inside the door

Century and Period: 14th century (early?), Decorated

Cognate Fonts: underbowl heads like those on the font at Wootton Waven, in the same county

Credit and Acknowledgements: REVISE THIS IF NEEDED ****************

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for Barcheston [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP2639/barcheston/] [accessed 19 December 2014], neither of of which mentions cleric or church in it. Hilary L. Turner web-site hsitory of Barcheston [www.barchestonhistory.info/church.html] [accessed 19 December 2014] reports "Two drawings, said to be by John Buckler dated June 1823, show the east end and the font" [British Library, Add Ms 36390, f. 38, 39] . The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 5, 1949) notes: "Although small the church is one of the more interesting in this district. [...] The nave and chancel date from c. 1190–1200, but there was probably an earlier nave on the site. A north aisle was added about 1220, with the arcade of three bays [...] priests' [i.e., chancel] doorway of c. 1190–1200 [...] south doorway, of c. 1190–1200, apparently in situ and similar to, but more elaborate than, the chancel doorway [cf. supra] The font is octagonal and of early-14th-century date. The bowl has a moulded top edge and the sides are panelled saltire-wise with quatrefoils and half-quatrefoils. The hollowed under-side is enriched at the angles with human-head carvings, including a king and two bishops, and between them are large ball-flowers. The stem also has trefoiled panels and the moulded base is carved with ball-flower ornament. English Heritage (1966) notes: "Church. C12/early C13 in origin with C14 additions of the north-west tower and south aisle. Alterations in C17 and restored 1870 and 1894. [...] Octagonal font with plinth with ball flower, traceried stem and bowl with head decoration." The entry in Warwickshire Churches [http://warwickshirechurches.weebly.com/barcheston---st-martin.html] [accessed 19 December 2014] reports: "The furnishings are not old with the exception of the fine 14th century font, carved with heads and ballflower ornament, which vividly illustrates the problems this church faces from damp by being virtually green with algae." Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with vertical sides decorated with large saltire-like motifs, one on each panel, below a protruding round moulding at the upper rim; on the flat underbowl human (?) heads and ball-flower (?) motifs have been deeply carved, much as they appear on the font at Wootton Wawen, also in Warwickshire, for example; the pedestal base somewhat resembles one of the monolithic fonts of the carved Decorated period (Poynings, Bloxham, etc.); the lower end of the base, however, is octagonal at the top and widely splayed, the upper side decorated with pebble like pattern, the lower end sloping, plain, and then square. The font appears greenish, probably from excess humidity and moss. [NB: the font is visible in a photograph in Flicker, with original from Oxfordshire Church Illustrations [http://flickr.com/photos/oxfordshire_church_photos/461476051/] [accessed 23 July 2007]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.057214, -1.615209

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 3′ 25.97″ N, 1° 36′ 54.75″ W

UTM: 30U 594943 5768307

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: appears round and almost flat

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2014-12-19 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.