Long Marston nr. Stratford-upon-Avon / Dry Marston / Marston Sicca / Merestone
Image copyright © Brenda Perkins, 2008
No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
Results: 4 records
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the basin could probably be Norman
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Brenda Perkins, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph 22 June 2008 by Brenda Perkins, in www.allthecotswolds.com [accessed 21 June 2008]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ian Rob, 2019
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 23 May 2019 by Ian Rob [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6166887] [accessed 23 September 2020]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St James The Great Church in Long Marston, showing its unusual timber framed bell tower."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Craig, 2010
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 8 April 2020 by Colin Craig [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1793553] [accessed 23 September 2020]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David P Howard, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 February 2015 by David P Howard [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4352121] [accessed 23 September 2020]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 13557MAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only] -- 15th century [base only] [composite font], Medieval / composite
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. James the Great
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder]
Church Notes: 14thC church; re-built 19thC
Church Address: Wyre Ln, Long Marston, Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8RN, UK -- Tel.: +44 1789 751546
Site Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 8 km SW of Stratford-upon-Avon, 9 km N of Chipping Campden
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Celfledetorn / formerly Gloucestershire
Additional Comments: altered font / composite font [the parish of Long Marston was part of Gloucestershire until 1931 --> then was incorporated to Warwickshire]
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this [Long] Marston [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SP1548/long-marston/] [accessed 23 September 2020] but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SP1526948119] notes: "Church. C14 nave and chancel, with C16 porch and restored C16 bell turret. [...] circular font on traceried base". Composite baptismal font consisting of a plain cylindrical basin raised on a later octagonal pedestal base; there appears to have been an attempt at matching the two by giving the round underbowl an octagonal chamfering all around [it is possible that the original was a tub-shaped font that was cut to size]; the stem has a trefoiled arch or window on each panel. Wooden cover consisting of a plain round base on which is a Jacobean-style finial of a Latin cross on a four scroll rib base.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 584184 5776767
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.135, -1.77
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 8′ 6″ N, 1° 46′ 12″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]