Winchcombe / Wynchecombe / Wacrescumb

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Results: 10 records

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LID01: animal - bird - dove

Scene Description: recorded as being from November 1764, perhaps a replacemnet of the original one?

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 27 March 2010 by Phil Rose

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Colin Hinson (e-mail of 18 April 2010)

UB01: inscription

Scene Description: either the initials of a donor, or, perhaps, standing for C[urch] W[arden/s]?

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 27 March 2010 by Phil Rose

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Colin Hinson (e-mail of 18 April 2010)

UB02: inscription

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 27 March 2010 by Phil Rose

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Colin Hinson (e-mail of 18 April 2010)

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 26 December 2007]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - nave - east end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2013 by John Wilkes

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 26 December 2007]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: note the different cover on the font in this image from the 1910s

Image Source: B&W post-card

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font and cover

Image Source: drawing in Dent (1877)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 March 2010 by Phil Rose

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 March 2010 by Phil Rose

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Colin Hinson (e-mail of 18 April 2010)

INFORMATION

FontID: 13274WIN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Country Name: England

Location: Gloucestershire, South West

Directions to Site: Located on the B6432, 13 km NE of Cheltenham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester

Historical Region: formerly Worcestershire

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end pf the nave

Date: 1634

Century and Period: 17th century, Restoration

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, and to Phil Rose, for their photographs of this church and font.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noake (1848) writes: "The font bears [the] date 1634; it stands six feet high, being approached by steps; the lid is surmounted with a dove, the emblem of the Holy Spiri,t as also of Christian purity. The cup of the font is large enough for total immersion. but a small metal basin deposited there shows that the rite is not performed in its full extent and significance." Dent (1877) notes and illustrates the font and cover but gives the date on it as "1635" [NB: it is actually 1634]; Dent (ibid.) quotes from an entry in the parish registers which records: "Nov. 1764. Paid for the Dove on the Font, 6s."] Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Octagonal stone pedestal dated 1634, with ornament typical of its date. The bowl is a late 17thC replacement, but the pretty original cover has survived." A different cover is on the font in a post-card that appears to be dated in the 1910s; the cover on the font consists of an octagonal moulded base with eight scroll ribs ending in a finial with two foliated motifs.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.9549, -1.965

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 57′ 17.64″ N, 1° 57′ 54″ W

UTM: 30U 571124 5756539

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Notes on Measurements: Noake (1852) has "six feet high", but he must be referring to the combination of font and cover.

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: letters and numbers

Inscription Location: on the sides of the stem

Inscription Text: "C / W / [6 -or- G] [...] / 16 / 34"

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th century?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: painted dome with dove finial; the dove is from 1764 [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Dent, Emma, Annals of Winchcombe and Sudeley, London: John Murray, 1877

Noake, John, The rambler in Worcestershire, or, Stray notes on churches and congregations, Worcester: Published and sold by all booksellers, 1848

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