Huntley / Huntelei

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St John the Baptist, Huntley. Built in 1862-3 at the expense of the incumbent Rev Daniel Capper, who employed Samuel Sanders Teulon as architect. The tower is the only remnant of the original church - Teulon added the broach spire."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Pankhurst, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 February 2013 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3332977] [accessed 8 December 2018]

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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "High Victorian pairing, Huntley. Teulon's magnificent village church of 1862-3 with its neighbour the National School of 1874-5, designed by Gloucester architect J.E. Jones. Both are still very much in use."

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 February 2013 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3332972] [accessed 8 December 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "St John the Baptist, Huntley. As always, Pevsner has just the word for it - sumptuous. Teulon's finest village church interior, enhanced by the many examples of work by master sculptor Thomas Earp. High Victorian heaven."

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 February 2013 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3332983] [accessed 7 December 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "St John the Baptist, Huntley. S.S. Teulon's magnificent interior, with an abundance of Thomas Earp's sculpture on show."

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 February 2013 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3333131] [accessed 7 December 2018]

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view of font

Scene Description: the Victorian font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2013

Image Source: digital image of a 1989 photograph taken by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3307441] [accessed 7 December 2018]

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view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007

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

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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "St John the Baptist, Huntley. The superb font, by Thomas Earp, who was responsible for all of the carved stonework in this magnificent High Victorian church."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Pankhurst, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 February 2013 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3332985] [accessed 7 December 2018]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13118HUN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Ross Rd, Huntley GL19 3EX, UK -- Tel.: (07855) 607824
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A40, 11 km W of Gloucester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Botloe
Century and Period: 14th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photograph of this modern font
Church Notes: church here documented 1310
There is an entry for Huntley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SO7219/huntley/] [accessed 7 December 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SO7133219609] notes: "Parish Church. 1862/3 except for C15 tower. By S. S. Teulon for Rev. D. Capper: carving by Earp. [...] ornate font on pillared base in brass-railed enclosure in nave." The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (vol. 12, 2010) notes: "Huntley church bore its dedication to St John the Baptist by the end of the Middle Ages. [...] In 1857 [...] [it] was demolished apart from the tower. [...] The new church, completed in 1863, was designed by S.S. Teulon in the Decorated style and was lavishly furnished. [...] The fittings, of which the reredos, pulpit, lectern, and font are in alabaster and marble [...] by Earp". The present baptimal font consists of an octagonal basin profusely decorated, the lower part with protruding demi-figures and/or protomes holding scrolls; the base is the favourite Victorian set of coloured marble supports; raised on a polygonal plinth and surrounded by an enclosure; flat octagonal wooden cover. A grand affair, in the overdone Victorian taste. [NB: we have no information on the earlier font(s) of that church].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 2° 25' 4" W, -2.4179
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 52' 27" N, 51.8743

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2018-12-07 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002