Awre / Aure / Avre

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches - 16

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph by Vera Baber

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design element - architectural - arch-head - trefoiled - inscribed - 8

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Image Source: digital photograph by Vera Baber

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 16

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Image Source: digital photograph by Vera Baber

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 July 2008 by Robert Cutts [www.flickr.com/photos/21678559@N06/2666603177] [accessed 11 December 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font is partially visible here on the left [south] side of the nave, by the south entranceway

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 December 2009 by Jonathan Billinger [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2237882] [accessed 11 December 2018]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph by Vera Baber

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13523AWR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Church Location: Awre, Newnham GL14 1EW, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1594 516671

Country Name: England

Location: Gloucestershire, South West

Directions to Site: Located between the A48 (W) and the Severn, W of Frampton on Severn, 16 km SW of Gloucester

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester

Historical Region: Hundred of Bledisloe -- formerly Somerset

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, by the S doorway

Century and Period: 15th century (early?), Early Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Vera Baber and to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for their photographs of church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Awre [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SO7008/awre/] [accessed 11 December 2018]; it reports "1 church. 0.25 church lands" in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 5, 1996): "Awre had a church, with I yardland attached to it, in 1086 [...] The octagonal font is probably of the early 15th century". The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SO7088208047] reports a 15th-century font in it. Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Early C15, octagonal; two quatrefoils in panels above a trefoil, with intersecting arcading below." Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin decorated with two levels of motifs on the sides: the upper register has pairs of quatrefoils boxed in, the lower register has a trefoil arch-head on each side; the almost vertical underbowl chamfer has pairs of pointed arch-heads on each panel. The octagonal pedestal base is plain and appears modern. The octagonal cover with acorn finial is modern. [NB: the VCH notes that there is a church here reported in the Domesday Book by 1086, but we have no information on the original font of that church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.7704, -2.42338

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 46′ 13.44″ N, 2° 25′ 24.17″ W

UTM: 30U 539787 5735659

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: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2008-04-23 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

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