Leigh nr. Gloucester / Lalege / Lye / The Leigh / The Lye
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
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view of church exterior - south porch - detail
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view of church exterior - west end
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view of font
Scene Description: the 19th-century font
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the 15th-century font
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INFORMATION
FontID: 13312LEI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Catherine [formerly St. James']
Church Patron Saints: St. Catherine of Alexandria [aka Katherine, Katharine] [formerly dedicated to St. James]
Church Location: Church Lane, The Leigh, Gloucestershire, GL19 4AF, UK -- Tel.: (01) 452 731994
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A38, 7 km S of Tewkesbury, 10 km NNE of Gloucester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Deerhurst
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and fonts.
Church Notes: "The church of ST. CATHERINE, so called since the restoration of the church in 1885, (fn. 241) perhaps because of a 15th-century, decapitated statue of the saint over the west door of the tower, was called St. James's from the early 16th century. " [cf. VCH entry in FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Leigh [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SO8726/leigh/] [accessed 31 January 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: "The church at Leigh may have been built by the late 12th century [...] as a chapel of Deerhurst, and it continued to be referred to as a chapel up to 1540 [...] The octagonal font is 15th-century"; the latter reference in the VCH is footnoted: "'Glos. fonts', Trans. B.G.A.S. xlix. 139." Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. C15, octagonal, the bowl carved with quatrefoils with foliated centres. Plain cover, with urn, 1715." There is a second font in this church but it is is a Victorian one.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.9301, -2.196
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 55′ 48.36″ N, 2° 11′ 45.6″ W
UTM: 30U 555281 5753569
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-century?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-07-18 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002