Winson / Winestune

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view of church exterior - south portal - detail
view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum and archivolt
view of church exterior - south view
view of church interior - chancel arch - detail
view of church interior - looking east
view of font and cover
view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the south doorway behind the font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Ross & Britain Express Ltd, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph by David Ross & Britain Express Ltd [www.britainexpress.com/counties/glouces/churches/Winson.htm] [accessed 19 December 2018]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 13272WIN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael [aka
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Church Location: Winson, Cirencester GL7 5ER, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A429, about 8 km NE of Cirencester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Bradley [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, by the S entranceway
Century and Period: 12th century [basin only] -- [19th-century supports] [composite font], Medieval / composite
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com], and to David Ross & Britain Express Ltd [www.britainexpress.com] for their photographs of this church and font
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There is an entry for Winson [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP0908/winson/] [accessed 19 December 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for the parish of Bibury in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 7, 1981) notes: "Architectural evidence shows that at Winson the chapel, dedicated to ST. MICHAEL by 1457, [...] existed by the 12th century but the earliest known documentary reference is of 1276 [...] The font has a 12th-century bowl on a 19th-century base." Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Plain circular Norman bowl, on a cluster of four C19 shafts." The entry for this church in the CRSBI (2018) reports: "The font is sited immediately W of the S doorway. It is tub-shaped, monolithic, and tapers from wider at top to narrower base, undecorated, with clear vertical tool marks. Repair to rim approx. 0.17 m, at rim 0.05 m deep at maximum, on SW, a chip 0.05 m long on rim at W. The base is 19thc." Baptismal font consisting of a plain bucket-shaped basin raised on a modern base, a cluster of four cylindrical columns with moulded bases. Plain round wooden cover; modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.776375,
-1.869942
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 46′ 34.95″ N,
1° 52′ 11.79″ W
UTM: 30U 577964 5736771
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 8.75 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 59 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 76.5 cm*
Basin Depth: 33 cm*
Basin Total Height: 45.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2018)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2018-12-19 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2018-12-19 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002