Gatcombe / Gadecombe / Gatecome / Gatecumb / Yatcombe
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of font
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 August 1999 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1171871] [accessed 12 September 2011]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 14613GAT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Olave
Church Patron Saints: St. Olaf [aka Olaf II Haraldsson, Óláfr Haraldsson, Olav, Olav Haraldsson, Olave, Olof]
Church Location: Gatcombe Rd, Gatcombe PO30 3EJ, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Isle of Wight, South East
Directions to Site: Located 5 km from Newport
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Portsmouth
Historical Region: Hundred of West Medine / Hundred of Bowcombe [in Domesday] -- formerly Hampshire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 13th century (early?), Early English
There is an entry for this Gatcombe [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SZ4985/gatcombe/] [accessed 19 February 2020] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. White (1878) reports "an ancient font placed upon a pedestal of [Portland stone]". Cox (1911) reports an octagonal bowl of Purbeck marble in this church: "Of the original fabric there remain […] and the octagonal bowl of the font of Purbeck marble, chancelled into pointed arcades." The Victoria County Histroy (Hampshire, vol. 5, 1912) notes: "There is an interesting 13th-century font with octagonal shaft and bowl on the faces of which are slightly sunk arched panels […] The upper, original, part is of Purbeck stone." In Lloyd & Pevsner (2006): "The font is probably early C13; octagonal bowl of Purbeck marble with the usual two plain flat pointed arches on each side."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.663611,
-1.304167
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 39′ 49″ N,
1° 18′ 15″ W
UTM: 30U 619851 5613790
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone (Purbeck marble in part)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lining
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-05-08 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, Isle of Wight: its churches and religious houses, London: G. Allen & Sons, 1911
Lloyd, David W., The Isle of Wight, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006
White, William, History, gazetteer and directory of the County of Hampshire including the Isle of Wight, and [...], Sheffield: William White, 1878
