Littleton-on-Severn / Littleton-upon-Severn / Littletona

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B01: design element - motifs - chevron

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of church exterior - south view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13927LIT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary of Malmesbury
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located 5 km NW of Thornbury, 16 km N of Bristol
Historical Region: Hundred of Langley
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Littleton [-n-Severn] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/ST5989/littleton-on-severn/] [accessed 29 May 2019] Verey & Brooks (1999-2002) write: "Norman font; bowl ornamented with large crude chevron, on an octagonal pillar with spurs at the corners." Baptismal font consisting of a round tub-shaped basin with -now- tapering sides decorated with very large chevron bands, raised on a small pedestal base and a square lower base. The large basin appears to have been re-cut from the original shape, and the base is an ill-suited later addition. The wooden cover is round and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; appears modern.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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