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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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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INFORMATION

FontID: 13524BLA
Church/Chapel: Chapel of All Saints [originally a stoup from Gatcombe]
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
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?
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century [re-used], Perpendicular [altered?]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and stoup
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.

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-. Accessed: 2008-04-23 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002