Winchcombe / Wynchecombe / Wacrescumb
Image copyright © Phil Rose, 2010
Image and permission received via Colin Hinson (e-mail of 18 April 2010)
Results: 10 records
LID01: animal - bird - dove
Scene Description: recorded as being from November 1764, perhaps a replacemnet of the original one?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Phil Rose, 2010
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
![either the initials of a donor, or, perhaps, standing for C[urch] W[arden/s]?](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1100418006_compressed.png)
Scene Description: either the initials of a donor, or, perhaps, standing for C[urch] W[arden/s]?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Phil Rose, 2010
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
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1100418007_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Phil Rose, 2010
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 font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Phil Rose, 2010
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)
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Phil Rose, 2010
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)
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: drawing in Dent (1877)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2013 by John Wilkes
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: B&W post-card
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 26 December 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 13274WIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1634
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century, Restoration
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end pf the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B6432, 13 km NE of Cheltenham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: formerly Worcestershire
Additional Comments: altered font [cf. FontNotes] -- price of a font: six shillings paid in November 1764 for the dove finial]
Font Notes:
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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.
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.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 571124 5756539
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.9549, -1.965
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 57′ 17.64″ N, 1° 57′ 54″ W
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, p. xi, 305, 307
- Noake, John, The rambler in Worcestershire, or, Stray notes on churches and congregations, Worcester: Published and sold by all booksellers, 1848, p. 350
- Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002, vol. 1: 728