Staverton / Staruenton
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the 19th-century font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 6 January 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 6 January 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 13304STA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Catherine [formerly St. John the Baptist]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Catherine of Alexandria [aka Katherine, Katharine] [formerly dedicated to St. John the Baptist]
Church Address: Church Lane, Staverton, Gloucestershire, GL51 0TR
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the M5, 7 km W of Cheltenham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Deerhurst
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the medieval font from the ca.1297 church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Starventon [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SO8923/staverton/] [accessed 1 February 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 8, 1968) notes: "There was a church there by 1297 when a vicar was presented by the Prior of Deerhurst. [...] formerly called the church of St. John the Baptist [...] The registers are virtually complete from 1538." The VCH entry does not mention a font in this parish. Verey & Brooks (1999-2002) note: "Octagonal late C19 font". The font consists of an octagonal basin the sides of which are decorated with cross symbols, raised on a pedestal base of the same shape with trefoil-like panels and moulded lower end. Wooden cover, flat and round, with metal decorations and ring handle; probably contemporary with the font. [NB: we have no information on the earlier font of this church].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of The Gloucestershire Photo Library, for his photographs of church and font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 622666 5790253
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002, vol. 2: 690