Barton-on-the-Heath No. 2 / Barton on the Heath / Bertone

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design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - cusped quatrefoil - 8

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2007 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/512020] [accessed 19 December 2014]

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design element - motifs - foliage

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2007 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/512020] [accessed 19 December 2014]

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design element - motifs - moulding

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2007 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/512020] [accessed 19 December 2014]

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design element - motifs - panel - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2007 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/512020] [accessed 19 December 2014]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2007 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/512020] [accessed 19 December 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13093BAR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Lawrence

Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]

Church Location: Barton-on-the-Heath, Warwickshire GL56 0PH

Country Name: England

Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A44, about 10 km NW of Chipping Norton, about 40 km S of Stratford upon Avon

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Coventry

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

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

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Barton[-on-the-Heath] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP2532/barton-on-the-heath/] [accessed 19 December 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 5, 1949) notes: "The font, of the 15th century, is octagonal: the sides of the bowl have quatrefoiled panels with square central paterae and on the concave underside are foliage bosses. The stem has plain panels and the base is moulded. [...] The font, of the 15th century, is octagonal: the sides of the bowl have quatrefoiled panels with square central paterae and on the concave underside are foliage bosses. The stem has plain panels and the base is moulded". Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with deeply carved quatrefoil panels inscrbing a floral motif in each; the underbowl moulded at the top, the chamfer decorated with large leaf motifs on each side; octagonal pedestal base with mouldings forming panels; moulded lower base; octagonal plinth. The wooden font cover is a small octagonal pyramid with a cross finial; appears modern. [NB: the font appears suspiciously new; has it been re-tooled?]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.990276, -1.628307

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 59′ 25″ N, 1° 37′ 41.9″ W

UTM: 30U 594186 5760845

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2008-06-14 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.