Toddington nr. Winchcombe / Todintun

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Andrew's is the 3rd church to stand on this site in Toddington since the Middle Ages. The present church was built by George E Street, who had been commissioned by the 3rd Lord Sudeley. Work started in 1869 and cost the considerable sum of £44,000. Housed in the North Transept lie the 1st Lord Sudeley (Charles Hanbury-Tracy) and Lady Sudeley on a Gothic "Altar Tomb" sculpted by John Graham Lough."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2009 by Jonathan Billinger [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1520344] [accessed 13 October 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Andrew's church, Toddington - nave. A fine interior to this Victorian Gothic church."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2009 by Jonathan Billinger [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1537623] [accessed 13 October 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Andrew's church, Toddington - interior. Looking from the chancel towards the west end."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2009 by Jonathan Billinger [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1537624] [accessed 13 October 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 31 January 2008]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 13333TOD

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew [formerly St. Leonard's]

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew [earlier church dedicated to St. Leonard]

Church Location: 4 The Square, Toddington GL54 5DQ

Country Name: England

Location: Gloucestershire, South West

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the B4077, just E of the B4078, 6 km N of Winchcombe, NNE of Cheltenham, in the Cotsolds

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester

Historical Region: Hundred of Greston [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Kiftsgate

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of The Gloucestershire Photo Library [www.allthecotswolds.com/], for his photograph of the modern font here

Church Notes: earlier church here 15thC, dedicated to St. Leonard; re-built 1723; re-built 1873-1879 and dedication changed to St. Andrew

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for this Toddington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP0333/toddington/] [accessed 13 October 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Lewis (1833) reports the church here as St. Leonard's [NB: the dedication was changed in the late-19th century re-building by Street [cf. infra.]]. The present baptismal font in the Victorian church here consists of a cylindrical basin raised on a cluster of columns and a round lower base; the sides of the basin have four cinquefoil arches at 90-degree angles, the arches inscribed with charged shields; between the arches are stylised foliage motifs; mouldings and floral motifs decorate the underbowl and base; the outer colonnettes of the clustered base are coloured stone, in the Victorian manner. Round and flat wooden cover with metal decoration and ring handle; probably contemporary with the font, 19th-century, and, like the church itself, perhaps designed by G.E. Street, as suggested in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002). [NB: the church by Street was, according to Verey & Brooks (ibid.) built "on the site of and more or less as its predecessor", but we have no information on the font of the earlier church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.995976, -1.950434

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 59′ 45.52″ N, 1° 57′ 1.56″ W

UTM: 30U 572059 5761111

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th-century?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002