Aldsworth / Aldesorde [Domesday] / Aldeswrde
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Scene Description: the modern font
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of church exterior - west tower
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 14096ALD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Bartholomew [aka St Peter's]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Bartholomew
Church Address: 28 Chapel Row, Aldsworth, Cheltenham GL54 3QZ, UK
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the B4425, 6 km SE of Northleach, NE of Cirencester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Bibury [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Brightwells Barrow
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the late-12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Aldsworth [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP1510/aldsworth/] [accessed 19 December 2018] neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 7, 1981) notes: "There was a chapel at Aldsworth c. 1184, [...] apparently one of the dependent chapels of Bibury church [...] church of ST. BARTHOLOMEW, named before 1784 [...] but sometimes called St. Peter's from 1745"; the VCH entry mentions no font so, presumably, the font here belongs to the mid-19th century restoration of this church. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SP1539009976] notes: "Anglican parish church. Late C12 and C15, restored 1842-3 and c1877 [...] Regency Gothick font at south-west corner of nave". Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin decorated with a protruding upper rim, the sides each with a pointed quatrefoil inscribed in a square panel; moulded underbowl chamfer; on an octagonal stem with trefoiled niches, and a moulded octagonal lower base. Minuscule kneeling stone. [NB: the church has a Norman portal, but we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and modern font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 584249 5738250
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.78876, -1.7785
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 47′ 19.54″ N, 1° 46′ 42.6″ W
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.