Hampnett / Hantone

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view of church exterior - south view
view of church exterior - west tower
view of church interior - ceiling
view of church interior - chancel
view of font
INFORMATION
FontID: 13110HAM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. George
Church Patron Saints: St. George
Church Location: Hampnett, Gloucestershire, GL54 3NW
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Locate on the A40, 2 km NW of Northleach, 17 km SE of Cheltenham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Bradley
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for the photographs of this church and font.
Church Notes: "Hampnett church has a dedication to ST. GEORGE, recorded from 1743, (fn. 290) but it once had one to St. Matthew, recorded in 1735 and later." [cf. VCH entry in FootNotes]
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Hampnett [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP1015/hampnett/] [accessed 5 July 2015]; it mentions a priest, though not a church in it, but there probably was one there. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 9, 2001) notes: "A priest was among Roger d'Ivry's tenants in Hampnett in 1086. [...] The parish church was built in the later 12th century. [...] The octagonal font has quatrefoil decoration on its bowl and dates perhaps from the late 15th or the early 16th century." [footnoted in the VCH entry: "Trans. B.G.A.S. xlii. 74, 80."] A font, probably the modern replacement of the medieval one, is noted in Verey and Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Perp[endicular] octagonal bowl." Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin decorated with a moulded upper rim, and pointed quatrefoil panels with inscribed motifs (rosettes, shileds); graded underbowl chamfer; plain stem on moulded lower base, both octagonal as well. Wooden cover, octagonal and flat, with metal decoration. Is it a restored 15th-16thC font? Victorian? [NB: we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.840177, -1.85597
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 50′ 24.64″ N, 1° 51′ 21.49″ W
UTM: 30U 578816 5743881
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood
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