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view of font and cover

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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - in a circle - in a square - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 8

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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

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view of church exterior - west tower - north view

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view of church exterior - north view

Scene Description: minus the tower

Image Source: photograph by Sharon Strange [www.sharons-tree.co.uk/blockley.htm] [accessed 18 September 2008]

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view of font in context

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: one at the top of the stem, several more, graded, on the lower volume of the base

Image Source: digital photograph 30 July 2023 by Colin Smith

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view of church interior - plan

Image Source: illustration in Soden (1875) reproduced in [http://members.shaw.ca/panthers5/BlockChurch.html] [accessed 18 September 2008]

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 13843BLO

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century [basin only] [composite font], Late Medieval [composite]

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, S side, beneath the W gallery

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul

Church Address: Blockley, Gloucestershire GL56 9ES

Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located on the B4479, off (E) the A44, 5 km NW of Moreton-in-Marsh

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester

Historical Region: Hundred of Oswaldslow -- formerly in Worcestershire

Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)

Font Notes: Click to view

There is an entry for Blockley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP1634/blockley/] [accessed 23 September 2014]; it reports a priest but mentions no church, though there probably was one here. A font here is described in Soden (1875): "The font is of stone, of decorated character, octagonal in plan, with quarterfoils on each face, having a four-leaved flower in the centre. Within the moulding, beneath the basin, and above the pedestal is a row of similar ornaments. The base consists of one step only; and a modern carved oak cover serves as a canopy." Miller (1890) reports an octagonal font in the church of Norman times. The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 3, 1913) notes: "There was a church at Blockley in 1086, served by a priest who held 1 hide of the manor. [...] The church dates from about 1180, and work of that period still remains in the four walls of the chancel, and in the east, south and west walls of the nave. There was probably a contemporary western tower, the two eastern buttresses of which appear inside the west wall of the nave. The church apparently stood unaltered until the 14th century [...] The font is octagonal in plan, the 14th-century bowl having quatrefoil panelled sides, each panel with a square flower. The stem and base are modern."

Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Octagonal, with the usual Perp[endicular] decoration."

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Sharon Strange, of www.sharons-tree.co.uk/blockley.htm, and to Colin Smith for their photographs of church and font

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 585038 5762730

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.008691, -1.761023

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 0′ 31.29″ N, 1° 45′ 39.68″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: tallish polygonal cover of openwork; modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Miller, George [Revd.], The Parishes of the Diocese of Worcester, Birmingham: Hall & English, 1890, vol. 2: 238-240
Soden, Alfred J. [Rev., curate of Blockley], The History of Blockley, 1875, [http://members.shaw.ca/panthers5/BlockChurch.html] [accessed 18 September 2008]
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002, vol. 1: 182