Bishops Cleeve / Bishop's Cleeve / Clive
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5477964] [accessed 31 January 2019]
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5477964] [accessed 31 January 2019]
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view of church exterior - south portal - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Bishops Cleeve, St. Michael and All Angels Church: Monster consuming another creature on the south doorway. A modestly presented Green Man can also be seen."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5477848] [accessed 31 January 2019]
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view of church exterior - south portal - east side - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Bishops Cleeve, St. Michael and All Angels Church: Monster consuming another creature on the south doorway".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5477844] [accessed 31 January 2019]
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view of church exterior - south portal - west side - capital
Scene Description: Source caption: "Bishops Cleeve, St. Michael and All Angels Church: Modest green man on the south porch doorway".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5477967] [accessed 31 January 2019]
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view of church exterior - southeast portal
Scene Description: opening into the chancel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5477967] [accessed 31 January 2019]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5436202] [accessed 31 January 2019]
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view of church exterior - west portal - north side - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Bishops Cleeve, St. Michael and All Angels Church: Norman west doorway capitals and serpent with vicious teeth".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5477832] [accessed 31 January 2019]
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view of church exterior - west portal - south side - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Bishops Cleeve, St. Michael and All Angels Church: Norman west doorway capitals and serpent eating itself".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5477832] [accessed 31 January 2019]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Bishops Cleeve, St. Michael and All Angels Church: Nave looking west with c17th Jacobean oak gallery". -- the stone font is visible at the far end, beneath the gallery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5477886] [accessed 31 January 2019]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "Bishops Cleeve, St. Michael and All Angels Church: Chancel and nave beyond".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5477877] [accessed 31 January 2019]
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view of church interior - south portal - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Bishops Cleeve, St. Michael and All Angels Church: Monster in a ball design on the Norman south doorway. This is on the interior side of the doorway."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5477908] [accessed 31 January 2019]
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view of church interior - transept - south transept - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Bishops Cleeve, St. Michael and All Angels Church: The entrance to the Norman south transept".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5477942] [accessed 31 January 2019]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 14093BIS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Angels
Church Location: Church Road, Bishop's Cleeve, Gloucestershire, GL52 8LJ
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located 5 km N of Cheltenham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Cleeve -- Hundred of Tibblestone [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 16th century(late?), Elizabethan? / Tudor?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Robert Wilkes for his drawing of this church
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for [Bishops] Cleeve [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SO9627/bishops-cleeve/] [accessed 31 January 2019] reports a priest as one of the lords here in 1086, but mentions no church in it, though there must have been one there. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 8, 1968) notes: "The monastery to which Offa granted the greater part of the parish between 768 and 779 [...] was presumably a small collegiate community at Cleeve, perhaps already serving the surrounding area that was later to form the large parish of Bishop's Cleeve. Only one priest was recorded at Cleeve in 1086 [...] The church was either built or almost completely rebuilt in the late 12th century, and much of the 12th-century work, for which the church is remarkable, survived in 1964. [...] The octagonal font is of the late 16th century". In Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Probably c. 1570-80. Plain, octagonal, without a pedestal; moulded top and base." [NB: we have no information on the font(s) from the earlier church here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.948141, -2.058151
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 56′ 53.31″ N, 2° 3′ 29.35″ W
UTM: 30U 564732 5755689
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: Thick and contrived vertical scrolls on a plain octagonal platform; appears modern
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2008-12-11 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002