Blakeney / Blakeney nr. Chepstow
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B01: design element - motifs - varied
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BBL01: design element - motifs - moulding
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R01: design element - motifs - moulding
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of church exterior - south porch
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of stoup
Scene Description: the re-cycled stoup now being used as a baptismal font
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 13524BLA
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century [re-used], Perpendicular [altered?]
Church / Chapel Name: Chapel of All Saints [originally a stoup from Gatcombe]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located near Awre, itself near Chepstow, 16 km SW of Gloucester [Gatcombe is located 2.5 km SSE of Blakeney]
Historical Region: formerly Somerset?
Additional Comments: re-cycled stoup later used as font
Font Notes:
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The Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 5, 1996) notes that the "bowl of the font is a 15th-century water stoup, discovered near Gatcombe during building of the South Wales railway". Ditto in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002). The basin of the old stoup is roughly cylindrical, with the back flat as it to be wall-mounted; there is a decorated moulding at the upper rim and another around the bottom; the rounded sides are decorated with a variety of motifs inscribed in circles; the flat aside appears plain; the inner well appears to be lead-lined; the present octagonal base is a modern octagonal pedestal decorated with mouldings.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and stoup
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round [cf. FontNotes]
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round [cf. FontNotes]
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. 197