Bulley / Bulelege
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
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R01: design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 14102BUL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (mid?), Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael, Bulley
Font Location in Church: Inside, W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Address: Bulley Ln, Bulley, Gloucester GL2 8BN, UK
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A40, 8 km W of Gloucester, 16 km E of Ross-on Wye
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Westbury [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: altered font / restored base
Font Notes:
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Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Norman circular bowl with roll at top and bottom, supported on a heavy restored cylindrical base." Listed and illustrated in the CRSBI [https://www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=7423] [accessed 3 July 2025]: Font. At the W end of the nave in the centre. It consists of an unlined, low cup-shaped bowl; plain but with a boldly projecting upper rim, on a stem of coursed ashlar with an upper roll moulding. This has no base and stands on a square modern step. The bowl has rim damage at the E, W and SW [...] The font is also 12thc".
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (inside rim): 64 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 84 cm*
Basin Total Height: 31 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 102 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and round, with a flat foliated cross and ring handle in metal
REFERENCES
- Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002, vol. 2: 211