Teddington nr. Tewksbury / Teotintune

Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Standing permission
Results: 4 records
design element - motifs - floral - ball-flower
view of church exterior - west end
view of font and cover
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the font and cover visible on the right side of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 3 January 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 13295TED
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: Church Lane, Teddington, Glucestershire, GL20 8TS, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located off the B4077, 7 km E of Tewksbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester
Historical Region: Hundred of Oswaldslow [in Domesday] formerly Worcestershire?
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century [base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of The Gloucestershire Photo Library [www.allthecotswolds.com], for his photographs of church and font.
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Teddington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO9633/teddington/] [accessed 12 November 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Miller (1890) writes that in the Teddington Chapel of St. Nicholas "the chancel arch is pre-Norman". The Victoria County History's entry for Overbury (Worcester, vol. 3, 1913) notes on the church of Teddington St. Nicholas: "The earliest detail of the building is the plain semicircular chancel arch, which seems to indicate an 11th-century origin [...] The base and stem of the font belong to the 14th century, but the bowl is modern." Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. The bowl is modern, but the base and circular shaft C14; eight small attached shafts with, between them, ballflower (cf. the font at Tewkesbury Abbey)". The baptismal font is of a composite nature, consisting of a modern hemispherical basin raised on a medieval [cf. supra] base formed by a cluster of colonnettes around an attached central shaft, and a quadrangular lower base. The whole is raised on a quadrangular plinth. The wooden cover is round and flat, with a metal ring handle; probably modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.994985, -2.053405
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 59′ 41.95″ N, 2° 3′ 12.26″ W
UTM: 30U 564991 5760903
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2008-06-30 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Miller, George [Revd.], The Parishes of the Diocese of Worcester, Birmingham: Hall & English, 1890
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002