Mickleton / Muceltude
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
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Results: 6 records
design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - 16
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - in a circle - 8
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design element - motifs - moulding
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design element - motifs - tracery
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view of church exterior - south view
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 13947MIC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Lawrence
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Location: High Street, Mickleton, Gloucestershire GL55 6RZ
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located off the B4632, 14 km E of Evesham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Celfledetorn [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Date: 1661
Century and Period: 17th century(mid), Stuart
Cognate Fonts: in the style of the font at Buckland [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of the church and the new font
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Mickleton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP1643/mickleton/] [accessed 24 May 2016], but it mwntions neither cleric nor church in it. Verey & Brooks (1999-2002) write: "Font. 1661, but modelled on Perp[endicular] fonts such as the one at Buckland". Baptismal font dated 1661 consisting of an octagonal basin with deeply-carved panels between two thick mouldings, each panel containing two quatrefoils with inscribed floral motifs; the underbowl chamfer has a large quatrefoil with inscribed floral motif on each side; the octagonal pedestal base has deeply-carved tracery windows on each panel. and has mouldings at top and bottom. The wooden font cover consists of a flat octagonal platform with four openwork ribs; modern, dated to the 1990s.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.089702, -1.764094
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 5′ 22.93″ N, 1° 45′ 50.74″ W
UTM: 30U 584674 5771736
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern / 1990s
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002