Exhall, nr. Wixford / Ecleshelle
Image copyright © Aidan McRae Thomson, 2014
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the font in the churchyard
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aidan McRae Thomson, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 September 2008 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/3117287134/in/set-72157604534203453] [accessed 20 November 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing Permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes 26 September 2008 [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southwest view
![EXT SW digital photograph taken 11 October 2010 by Robin Stott [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2122808] [accessed 20 November 2014]
INT ENE digital photograph taken 13 September 2008 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/3117287916/in/set-72157604534203453] [accessed 20 November 2014] NO P
IS THIS THE FONT? digital photograph taken 13 September 2008 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/3117287134/in/set-72157604534203453] [accessed 20 November 2014] NO P](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1141206034_compressed.png)
Scene Description: EXT SW digital photograph taken 11 October 2010 by Robin Stott [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2122808] [accessed 20 November 2014]
INT ENE digital photograph taken 13 September 2008 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/3117287916/in/set-72157604534203453] [accessed 20 November 2014] NO P
IS THIS THE FONT? digital photograph taken 13 September 2008 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/3117287134/in/set-72157604534203453] [accessed 20 November 2014] NO P
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Robin Stott, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 October 2010 by Robin Stott [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2122808] [accessed 20 November 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes 26 September 2008 [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: northeast, more accurately, across the north aisle on the left
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aidan McRae Thomson, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 September 2008 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/3117287916/in/set-72157604534203453] [accessed 20 November 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing Permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 13881EXH
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [restored?] / 19th century, Norman [altered?] / Late Victorian?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Giles
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]
Church Address: Exhall, Warwickshire B49 6EA
Site Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A46 across from Wixford, 4-5 km S of Alcester, 8 km ENE of Coventry
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Coventry
Historical Region: Hundred of Fernecumbe [in Domesday times] -- Hundred of Barlichway -- Hundred of Knightlow
Additional Comments: restored font? Disappeared font? (the present font could be a re-worked early font or a modern one [Victorian?])
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Exhall [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP1055/exhall/] [accessed 20 November 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 3, 1945) notes: "The church at Exhall was dedicated by Simon, Bishop of Worcester, c. 1125–35, who declared it to be a chapelry of Salford [...] The parish church [...] is a small building with a nave dating from the 12th century, and a 13th-century chancel. It was much restored and in part rebuilt in 1862, mainly at the cost of the then rector […] The font has a tapering round bowl on an octagonal stem; it is possibly an ancient bowl reworked but shows no signs of former staples for the lid. The other fittings are modern." NB: unless the upper rim was so trimmed as to erase any trace of the old staples, the font is more likely to be 19th-century]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, and to Aidan McRae Thomson, of Warwickshire Churches, for their photographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 601841 5813470
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.461893, -1.501012
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 27′ 42.82″ N, 1° 30′ 3.64″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round base with four ribs or vertical scrolls around a central pivot
REFERENCES
- Castilla y León: paisaje, arte, historia y tradición, León: Edilesa, 1999, Warwick, vol. 3: 86-91 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/warks/vol6/pp86-91] [accessed 27 January 2015]