Dowdeswell / Dodesuuelle

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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 8

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

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view of church exterior - tympanum

Scene Description: Source caption: "A tympanum of the Tree of Life on Dowdeswell church. These are normally placed above the door at the entrance to a church, this one was found in the 19th century and placed high in the gable of the south organ chamber of St Michael's church, Dowdeswell."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 December 2010 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2190248] [accessed 7 February 2019]

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view of church exterior in context - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "The church at Lower Dowdeswell serves the parishes of Dowdeswell and Andersford."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 December 2010 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2187961] [accessed 7 February 2019]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 December 2010 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2190248] [accessed 7 February 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13875DOW

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael [aka St Michael and All Saints]

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael / St. Michael & All Saints

Church Location: Dowdeswell, Gloucestershire, GL54 4LX

Country Name: England

Location: Gloucestershire, South West

Directions to Site: Located 10 km SE of Cheltenham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester

Historical Region: Hundred of Bradley -- Hundred of Wacrescumbe [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Dodeswell [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SP0019/dowdeswell/] [accessed 7 February 2019]; it mentions "0.5 church lands" in it, but not a preiest or a church, though there probably were. Verey & Brooks (1999-2002) note: "Font. Perp[endicular]. Octagonal bowl with quatrefoils." The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 9, 2001) notes: "Dowdeswell church, on architectural evidence, was founded during the Norman period. [...] Fragments from a Norman church were found buried in the churchyard in the 19th century, including a tympanum with the 'Tree of Life' motif and some dogtooth ornament and part of a capital, which were later set in the south wall of the organ chamber built in 1867. [...] The font, which has quatrefoil panels on the bowl, dates from the 15th century." The panels on the sides of tha basin are deeply carved, and there is a double moulding around the lower end; the underbowl appears plain; the upper part of the pedestal base is plain, but the lower is splayed, with a step. Small octagonal plinth. The flat wooden cover is octagonal and has metal decoration and a ring handle. [NB: we have no information on the earlier font of this church].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.877667, -1.999953

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 52′ 39.6″ N, 1° 59′ 59.83″ W

UTM: 30U 568840 5747905

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

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2008-09-25 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

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