Bourton-on-the-Water No. 2 / Bortune

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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of St Lawrence, Bourton-on-the-Water. [...] The oldest part of the church is the 14th century chancel. The rest of the church was rebuilt in 1784."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jaggery, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by Jaggery [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4106990] [accessed 13 December 2018]
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view of church exterior - southwest end
view of church interior - nave - looking east
view of font - northwest view
Scene Description: the 19thC font, in Perpendicular style
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nilfanion, 2013
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 23 April 2013 by Nilfanion [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Font,_St_Lawrence's_Church,_Bourton-on-the-Water_(1393).jpg] [accessed 13 December 2018]
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view of font and cover - northwest side
Scene Description: the 19thC font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nilfanion, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 April 2013 by Nilfanion [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Font,_St_Lawrence's_Church,_Bourton-on-the-Water_(1393).jpg] [accessed 13 December 2018]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 13857BOU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Lawrence
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Location: School Hill, Bourton-on-the-Water, Cheltenham GL54 2AW, UK -- Tel.: +44 1451 820386
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the A429, S of Stow-in-the-Wold
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Salmonsbury [in Domesday]Hundred of Slaughter
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and modern font
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Bourton [-on-the-Water] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP1620/bourton-on-the-water/] [accessed 13 December 2018]; it mentions a priest and "0.5 church lands" but not the church itself, though there must have been one there. The Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 6, 1965) notes: "There was a priest in Bourton in 1086 [...] The earliest known building was apparently late Saxon, and the nave of that period survived in part (with some later windows) until the late 18th century [...] Traces of a 12th-century chancel arch have been found [...] The oval-shaped bowl of the 18th-century font, which was replaced during the 19th-century rebuilding and the pedestal of which was lost, [...] was reset in the 20th century in the west wall of the aisle." The modern font is noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font of 1875 [...] by Jackson -- In a recess in the W[est] wall of the aisle the oval stone bowl of the C18 font, thrown out in the Jackson restoration, when its pedestal was lost." [NB: the same source notes that the "Norman nave and central tower, on Saxon foundations, were demolished in 1874", but we have no information on the earlier fonts of this church]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.8861, -1.75884
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 53′ 9.96″ N, 1° 45′ 31.82″ W
UTM: 30U 585421 5749098
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal pyramidal with a Latin cross finial
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-07-05 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002