Farmington / Thormarton / Thormerton

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

Scene Description: the modern font

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

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: the modern font

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

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: the modern font

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

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Scene Description: the modern font

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

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - pointed or cusped quatrefoil - 8

Scene Description: the modern font

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

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2017 by John Wilkes

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2017 by John Wilkes

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font

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

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13101FAR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: Farmington, Gloucestershire, GL54 3ND

Country Name: England

Location: Gloucestershire, South West

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A40, E of the A429, near Northleach, 20 km ESE of Cheltenham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester

Historical Region: Hundred of Bradley

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 12th century, Norman

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of The Gloucestershire Photo Library [www.allthecotswolds.com], for the photographs of this church and modern font.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Farmington in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP1315/farmington/] [accessed 6 August 2017]. The Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 9, 2001) notes: "The church at Farmington had, on architectural evidence, been built by the 12th century [...] a Gothick-style font installed in 1784"; this last reference is footnoted in the VCH: "Glos. R.O., P 143/IN ½, baptism 25 Nov. 1784. The bowl of a medieval font, used as a part of the 19th-cent. drainage system, was unearthed in the churchyard in the 1990s: Trans. B.G.A.S. cxviii. 223." [NB: we have not been able to locate the present whereabouts of the discovered basin fragment nor date it]. The present baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with a protruding upper rim moulding, the sides of the basin decorated with pointed-quatrefoil panels deeply carved; graded underbowl; trefoil windows/arches on the slender pedestal sides; moulded lower base. Flat round cover. Noted and illustrated in The Gloucestershire Photo Library. The modern font is noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002).

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.835247, -1.804029

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 50′ 6.89″ N, 1° 48′ 14.5″ W

UTM: 30U 582404 5743390

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: fragment

LID INFORMATION

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-07-24 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

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