Newent No. 1 / Noent

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design element - motifs - drapery

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: on the basin and underbowl

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design element - motifs - moulding

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view of church exterior - south porch - cross - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "9th Century cross shaft in Newent church. Depicting Adam and Eve." [NB: the base on which it now stands is modern]

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 8 August 2012 by Julian P Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3077776] [accessed 6 December 2018]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: EXT SE digital photograph taken 29 December 2014 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4296740] [accessed 6 December 2018] INT E digital photograph taken 8 August 2012 by Julian P Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3077030] [accessed 6 December 2018] INT 9THc CROSS digital photograph taken 8 August 2012 by Julian P Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3077776] [accessed 6 December 2018] Source caption: "9th Century cross shaft in Newent church. Depicting Adam and Eve."

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 29 December 2014 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4296740] [accessed 6 December 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2012 by Julian P Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3077030] [accessed 6 December 2018]

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14184NEW

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Church St, Newent GL18 1AB, UK -- Tel.: +44 1531 821641

Country Name: England

Location: Gloucestershire, South West

Directions to Site: Located off (SE) the B4215-B4216 crossroads, 17 km NW of Gloucester

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester

Historical Region: Hundred of Botloe

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 17th century(late?), Jacobean

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font

Church Notes: original church may have existed 8th-9thC; present church 13thC+

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Newent [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SO7225/newent/] [accessed 6 December 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 12, 2010) notes: "Newent parish church, which by the early 15th century bore the dedication to St Mary the Virgin, [...] is likely to have been an Anglo-Saxon foundation. In 1907 a cross shaft (kept in the porch in 2007) was found in a prominent position on the south side of the churchyard next to the road. Carved with figurative scenes which depict Adam and Eve after their expulsion from Eden, the angel restraining Abraham from the sacrifice of Isaac, and the victory of David over Goliath, it probably dates from the late 8th century or the early 9th, being related both in style and iconography to sculpture from high-status Mercian sites of that period. [...] Of the medieval church, represented by its chancel, south lady chapel, and south-west tower and spire, nothing earlier than the late 13th century survives [...] The earliest parts, dating apparently from a rebuilding in the late 13th century or early 14th, seem to be the chancel and the arcade [...] The stone font, a classically decorated bowl on a stem, is of the late 17th century". Verey & Brooks (1999-2002) note: "Font. Late C17, with acanthus carved on the bowl, and draped swigs on the stem." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SO7235125957] notes: "Parish church; C13, C14, C15, early C17, 1675 nave by E.Taylor, F. Jones and J.Hill, restored C19, vestry C20. [...] Circular C17 stone font, acanthus leaves on bowl, swags on stem, moulded base."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.9313, -2.403538

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 55′ 52.68″ N, 2° 24′ 12.74″ W

UTM: 30U 541010 5753565

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: flat and round

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2018-12-06 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002