Sapperton nr. Cirencester / Sapletorne

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design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 16

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Brian Robert Marshall, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 17 February 2011 by Brian Robert Marshall [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2274439] [accessed 15 February 2019]
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design element - motifs - circle - 32

arranged two up, two down. on each panel, "not quite a quatrefoil" [cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: arranged two up, two down. on each panel, "not quite a quatrefoil" [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Brian Robert Marshall, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 17 February 2011 by Brian Robert Marshall [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2274439] [accessed 15 February 2019]
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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Source caption: "St Kenelm, Sapperton. Norman origins are hard to detect, but there is no missing the extravagant work of superb quality done in the early 18th century. The church contains wonderful woodwork and some superb monuments to long gone aristocrats. Leading exponents of the Arts and Crafts movement are also buried here."
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Kenelm, Sapperton. Norman origins are hard to detect, but there is no missing the extravagant work of superb quality done in the early 18th century. The church contains wonderful woodwork and some superb monuments to long gone aristocrats. Leading exponents of the Arts and Crafts movement are also buried here."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Pankhurst, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2014 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4182000] [accessed 15 February 2019]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Pankhurst, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2014 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4182000] [accessed 15 February 2019]
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view of font

Source caption: "Font, Church of St Kenelm. The font is not as ornate as some and has no cover. It is about 500 years old and is clearly still in use."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Font, Church of St Kenelm. The font is not as ornate as some and has no cover. It is about 500 years old and is clearly still in use."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Brian Robert Marshall, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 17 February 2011 by Brian Robert Marshall [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2274439] [accessed 15 February 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 14068SAP
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Kenelm
Church Patron Saints: St. Kenelm [aka Cynehelm, Cynhelm, Kenelme]
Church Location: Church Ln, Sapperton, Cirencester GL7 6LQ, UK -- Tel.: +44 117 929 1766
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A479, 7 km W of Cirencester [NB: there are two Sappertones in Gloucs.; the other is nearer Cheltenham]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Bisley
Font Location in Church: Outside, in the S porch
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:
There is an entry for this Sapperton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TF0133/sapperton/] [accessed 18 June 2018], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 11, 1976) notes: "The octagonal font was made in the 15th century". The VCH notes also that "There was a church at Sapperton by the 1190s when a priest was recorded there", but we have no information on the earlier font of that church. Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. C15, octagonal, each face of the bowl with four circles (i.e. not quite a quatrefoil), each face of the stem with paired trefoil-headed niches." The British Listed Building s database [www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-128360-church-of-st-kenelm-sapperton] [accessed 27 July 2012] gives the font location in the south porch.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.729362, -2.077516
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 43′ 45.7″ N, 2° 4′ 39.06″ W
UTM: 30U 563710 5731340

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2008-12-04 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002