Littledean
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
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Results: 4 records
design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: on the 17th-century stem [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 8 January 2008]
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view of church exterior - southwest 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 8 January 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 8 January 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 8 January 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 13308LIT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Ethelbert
Church Patron Saints: St. Ethelbert [aka Æthelberht]
Church Location: Church St, Littledean GL14 3NL, UK -- Tel.: (01594) 822286
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located off the A48, just E of Cinderford, 3 km N of Newnham, about 20 km WSW of Gloucester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of St. Briavels
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 17th century[base only] -- 18th century [basin only] [composite font], Baroque [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font.
No individual entry for Littledean found in the Domesday survey. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 5, 1996) notes: "Architectural evidence shows that Littledean had its own church or chapel by the later 12th century [...] The font has an octagonal bowl probably of medieval date", but in a footnote it has: "The bowl is ascribed to the 18th cent. in Trans. B.G.A.S. xlix. 130; Verey, Glos. ii. 288."
Verey & Brooks (1999-2002) note: "Font. Octagonal bowl, with trefoil-headed panels, probably C19. The stem is C17, the plinth possibly medieval." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SO6721513580] notes: "Parish Church. C12, C14 and C15 [...] Octagonal stone font, probably medieval, on later stem; trefoil headed blind arches to sides of bowl." [NB: we have no information on the earlier font of this church]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.8196,
-2.477
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 49′ 10.56″ N,
2° 28′ 37.2″ W
UTM: 30U 536048 5741103
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat octagonal platform with three raised ribs as finial; appears modern
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2018-12-12 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002
