Cold Aston / Aston Blank / Eastunae / Estone / Great Aston
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Results: 4 records
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font
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 - 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 interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the top of the modern font is visible in the lower right-hand corner of the image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 13866COL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew [St. Mary's in the mid-16thC?]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew [formerly dedicated to St. Mary?]
Church Notes: "The church, which may have borne a dedication to St. Mary in 1545, (fn. 382) was dedicated to ST. ANDREW by the late 18th century." [cf. VCH entry in FontNotes]
Church Address: Cold Aston, Cheltenham GL54 3BN, UK -- Tel.: 01451822070
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 5 km N of Northleach, 21 km E of Cheltenham, 30 km E of Gloucester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Bradley
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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No individual entry found for Cold Aston in the Domesday survey, but the National Archives has an entry under 'Estone', Folio 165r Great Domesday Book [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D7305663] [accessed 6 February 2019]. Verey & Brooks (1999-2002) write: "Font. Of 1876, Perp[endicular] style." The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 9, 2001) notes: "Cold Aston church dates from the 12th century and is first found recorded c. 1220. [...] Among new fittings and furnishings introduced in 1876 were a stone bowl for the font". Octagonal basin with foiled panels, alternately filled with blanks and emblems in shields; on a moulded octagonal pedestal base. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle, contemporary with the font. [NB: we do not have any 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 this church and modern font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 581529 5748082
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.87755, -1.815612
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 52′ 39.18″ N, 1° 48′ 56.2″ W
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
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: 294