Beverston / Beurestane [Domesday] / Beverstone

Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2015

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view of church exterior - west tower

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2015 by John Wilkes

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008

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

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view of font

Scene Description: before its restoration [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © British Library Board, 2011

Image Source: 1790 ink-wash-on-paper drawing by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm [www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/topdrawings/b/005add000015540u00103000.html] [accessed 28 October 2011]

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view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008

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

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view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2015 by John Wilkes

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13842BEV
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: The Green, Beverston, Gloucestershire, GL8 8TU
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located 3 km W of Tetbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Berkeley [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the S aisle
Century and Period: 13th - 15th century [basin only?] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, 2008, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of this church and font
There is an entry for Beverstone [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST8693/beverstone/] [accessed 5 July 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. There is a 1790 ink drawing of this font by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) in the British Library collections [Shelfmark: Additional MS 15540 - Item number: f.103]. The font before its restoration [cf. infra] had the same shape. Verey & Brooks (1999-2002) write: "Font. Plain octagonal bowl, chamfered on to an octagonal pedestal. Heavily restored by Vulliamy [i.e., Louis Vulliamy, architect of the 1844-1845 renovation of the church], and set in a sunken portion of the S[outh] aisle." The present wooden cover is octagonal, flat and plain, with a ring handle.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.645165, -2.20127
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 38′ 42.59″ N, 2° 12′ 4.57″ W
UTM: 30U 555265 5721876

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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