Sevenhampton nr. Cheltenham / Sennington / Sevenhamtone
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the 1892 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 31 January 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
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
Font ID: 13334SEV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1661?
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century, Restoration
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: Sevenhampton, Gloucestershire, GL54 5SW
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A40, 14 km ENE of Cheltenham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Bradley -- Hundred of Wacrescumbe [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time or 12thC church here) -- disused font: the 17thC one, re-cycled as a flower vase [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Sevenhampton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SP0321/sevenhampton/] [accessed 7 February 2019]; it mentions a priest in it but not a church, though there must have been one there. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 9, 2001) notes: "In 1136 Sevenhampton church, then described as the church of Prestbury on the hills, was given by Robert, bishop of Hereford, to Llanthony priory. [...] The cruciform plan and some of the surviving fabric date from the 12th century [...] it was restored and repewed in 1892 and 1893 [...] Among the new church fittings was a font given by Agatha Lawrence; [...] the baluster font it replaced, dating probably from the Restoration and described in 1863 as wretched and modern, [...] was used for floral displays in the church in 1997". Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Fonts. The earlier is C17, chalice-shaped, and may date from the Restoration of Charles II [i.e., 1661+]; that now in use, with large angels, is dated 1892." [NB: we have no information of the font from the Domesday-time or 12th century church here].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of The Gloucestershire Photo Library [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/], for his photographs of church and font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 572256 5749510
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: chalice-shaped
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. 1: 597