Chipping Campden No. 3 / Campdene / Chippin Campden

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view of basin - detail

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view of church exterior - north view

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view of church exterior - west tower

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13074CHI

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James

Church Patron Saints: St. James

Church Location: Church St, Chipping Campden GL55 6JG, UK -- Tel.: +44 1386 841927

Country Name: England

Location: Gloucestershire, South West

Directions to Site: Located on the B4081 just NE of the A44, 30-35 km NE of Cheltenham

Historical Region: Hundred of Witley

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: 1839

Century and Period: 19th century, Victorian

Cognate Fonts: The font at St. Mary Magdalen, Oxford [cf. FontNotes]

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

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for [Chipping] Campden [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SP1539/chipping-campden/] [accessed 18 March 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Fonts. One of 1839, a close copy of the late C14 font in St Mary Magdalen, Oxford.-- Half of another, fixed to the E[ast] wall of the S[outh] aisle, has E[arly] E[nglish] decoration probably worked on a Norman bowl." Noted with an illustration in Flicker, with original from Oxfordshire Church Illustrations [http://flickr.com/photos/oxfordshire_church_photos/265053941/] [accessed 3 August 2007]: "This font is based on the font of Mary Magdalen in Oxford." The octagonal basin has a band of blank shield-inscribed-in-pointed-quatrefoil motif all around the side of the upper rim, the sides covered in tracery pattern curving at the underbowl between buttresses or piping that continues on to the base; the splaying lower base is moulded and slightly concave, and rests on an octagonal volume and a larger octagonal plinth. The wooden cover appears Victorian, a flat octagonal platform with four curved ribs supporting a cross.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.05354, -1.7754

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 3′ 12.74″ N, 1° 46′ 31.44″ W

UTM: 30U 583968 5767701

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th-century?

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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