Bourton-on-the-Hill / Bortune
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Results: 9 records
view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 July 2012 by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of font and cover
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design element - motifs - panel - trefoiled - 16
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 July 2012 by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8
Scene Description: a row of, around the underbowl
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: several, on the stem and lower base
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view of font cover
Scene Description: the modern font cover
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view of church interior - capital
Scene Description: from the earlier part of the church
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 13856BOU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Lawrence
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Address: High St, Bourton-on-the-Hill, Gloucestershire, GL56 9AH, UK
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A44, 3 km W of Moreton-in-Marsh and the A429
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Deerhurst [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Tewkesbury
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original Norman church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Bourton [-on-the-Hill] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP1732/bourton-on-the-hill/] [accessed 17 December 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Verey & Brooks (1999-2002) write: "Font. C15, octagonal, with paired trefoil-headed panels." The Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 6, 1965) notes: "In 1157 Bourton church, built presumably by Westminster Abbey, was confirmed to the abbey. [...] There was a priest at Bourton before 1206 [...] The octagonal font is of the 15th century." Even though the church itself has some late-Norman elements, the font belongs to the Perpendicular period; it consists of an octagonal basin decorated with a protruding moulding at the upper rim, the sides with double trefoil-headed windows; the overhang of the side ornamentation creates trefoiled archheads on the underbowl sides; there is another moulding at the centre ring position, and two others down the octagonal shaft; the lower base is octagonal to square. The whole stands on a narrow plinth. The wooden font cover is octagonal and flat, with a carved to; probably Victorian. [NB: we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 586117 5760769
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.9909, -1.7458
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 59′ 27.24″ N, 1° 44′ 44.88″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century? / Victorian?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002, vol. 1: 186