Chedworth / Cedeorde
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view of font
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 June 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5427452] [accessed 29 January 2019]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Chedworth Church (Saint Andrew), Gloucestershire, 7 September 2018. A 'wool' church: 12th Century Norman rebuilt in late 15th Century in Perpendicular style. Pictured is the unusual Norman tub font."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hugh Llewelyn, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2018 by Hugh Llewelyn [www.flickr.com/photos/58433307@N08/43690206505] [accessed 29 January 2019]
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view of font and cover
view of font
Scene Description: without the lid the lead lining is discernible
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Malcolm J. Watkins, 2008
Image Source: Image courtesy & copyright © Malcolm J. Watkins, 2008 [www.heritagematters.co.uk]
Copyright Instructions: Photograph and permission received (e-mail of 8 August 2008)
design element - motifs - moulding - flat moulding
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1190129014_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 June 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5427455] [accessed 29 January 2019]
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - intersecting arches
Scene Description: notice the through crack around the middle and the new-stone insert repair to the upper rim
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 June 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5427455] [accessed 29 January 2019]
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view of basin - interior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Malcolm J. Watkins, 2008
Image Source: Image courtesy & copyright © Malcolm J. Watkins, 2008 [www.heritagematters.co.uk]
Copyright Instructions: Photograph and permission received (e-mail of 8 August 2008)
view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Chedworth Church (Saint Andrew), Gloucestershire, 7 September 2018. A 'wool' church: 12th Century Norman rebuilt in late 15th Century in Perpendicular style. Pictured is the west tower, the first three stages are Norman (note blocked-up former belfry windows), Perpendicular upper stage."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hugh Llewelyn, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2018 by Hugh Llewelyn [www.flickr.com/photos/58433307@N08/43880676634] [accessed 29 January 2019]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of church exterior in context - south view - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Ross & Britain Express Ltd., 2008
Image Source: digital photograph in http://www.britainexpress.com/counties/glouces/churches/Chedworth/Chedworth-1546-02032007.htm [accessed 8 August 2008]
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view of church interior - nave - capital
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: a small part of the font can be seen at the right-hand corner of this image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permision
INFORMATION
Font ID: 13676CHE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1100?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, W end, S side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: 3 Church Row, Chedworth, Cheltenham GL54 4AD, UK
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A429, 10 km NNE of Cirencester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Rapsgate
Additional Comments: disapeared font? (the one from the 11thC church here [cf. VCH entry in FontNotes])
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Chedworth [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SP0512/chedworth/] [accessed 29 January 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 7, 1981) notes: "Chedworth church was probably founded before or immediately following the Conquest, for it was presumably William FitzOsbern (d. 1071) who granted it to Lire Abbey, which he founded. [...] By the mid 12th century there was apparently a substantial church on the site, from which only part of the nave walling survives. [...] The church has a Norman tub-shaped font". Verey & Brooks (1999-2002) write: "Font. Norman, tub-shaped, with a pattern of iinterlacing arches." Noted and illustrated in the CRSBI (2019): "The font is tub-shaped with plain, intersecting blind arcading." Baptismal font of the tub-shape type, the sides decorated with a flat moulding below the rim and a blind arcade of tall rounded arches below; raised on a round lower base and an octagonal plinth. The wooden cover is flat and round, with metal reinforcements and ring handle; probably Victorian.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to David Ross, of www.britainexpress.com, to Malcolm J. Watkins, of www.heritagematters.co.uk, and to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for their photographs of church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 573957 5740798
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.813125, -1.927156
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 48′ 47.25″ N, 1° 55′ 37.76″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
Rim Thickness: 11.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 52 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 75 cm*
Basin Total Height: 59 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 96 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2019)
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002, vol. 1: 222