Portsmouth No. 1, Garrison Chapel

Image copyright © Allan Soedring, 2018

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Results: 8 records

design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches - 8

design element - motifs - floral

view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike Lawrence, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 October 2010 by Mike Lawrence [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Royal_Garrison_Church.jpg] [accessed 25 June 2018]

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view of church interior - chancel

Scene Description: the roof of the chancel survived the WWII bombings -- visible at the lower right hand corner is the tall ornate font cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Geni, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 September 2010 by Geni [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interior_of_Domus_Dei_church.JPG] [accessed 25 June 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the nave lost its roof in WWII bombings; at the far [east] end is the roofed chancel

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Edfitor5807, 2012

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the nave lost its roof in WWII bombings

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view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Allan Soedring, 2018

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view of font cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "The oldest feature is an ornate wooden font cover. Though parts of the font cover are Victorian, much of it dates to the 14th or even the 13th century. One of the volunteer guides told us that the cover is so fragile that they don't dare dust it, instead they simply blow on the surface to remove as much dust as possible without actually touching the medieval wood." [NB: another source [cf. FontNotes] gives the date of the cover as 1911].

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Ross & Britain Express Ltd, 2018

Image Source: digital photograph taken by David Ross, in Britain Express [https://www.britainexpress.com/attractions.htm?attraction=3388] [accessed 25 June 2018]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14940POR
Church/Chapel: Garrison Chapel [originally a Hospital dedicated to St. John the Baptist and St. Nicholas] / Domus Dei
Church Location: Portsmouth PO1 2NJ, UK -- Tel.: +44 23 9237 8291
Country Name: England
Location: Hampshire, South East
Directions to Site: Domus Dei is located off Penny St, SE of the Cathedral
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Portsmouth
Historical Region: Liberty of Portsmouth
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Church Notes: established ca. 1212 as an almshouse, hospital and hospice, with a chapel, later a church; restored late 18thC by G.E. Street; damaged WWII
No entry found for Potsmouth in the Domesday survey. A font here is illustrated with a drawing dated 14 February 1863, by Miss Allen in volume 5 of the 'Ilam Anastatic Drawing Society' (1864?) [http://www.archive.org/details/ilamanastasicdra05ilamuoft] [accessed 7 July 2009]. The font consists of an octagonal basin with vertical sides, with small florette (?) motifs on the underbowl; the octagonal pedestal stem has a pointed arch with supporting columns with capitals and bases; octagonal lower base and hexagonal (?) plinth, both plain [NB: this font may have disappeared]. The present font however, is a cylindrical basin raised on clustered columns, probably of the 19th-century. The entry for this building in Historic England [Listing NGR: SZ6319399229] mentions no font in it. [NB: the Memorials & Monuments in Portsmouth site [www.memorials.inportsmouth.co.uk] [accessed 7 July 2009] illustrates the present font and the tall wooden cover, a tall crocketed spire with dove finial dating from 1911; according to this source the font is located in the south-west corner of the nave, in the un-roofed part; the cover, on the other hand, is in the chancel [NB: the font located in the uncovered part of the nave is moder, late-Victorian?]]. [NB: we have no information on the whereabouts of the old octagonal font mentioned above]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.788967, -1.103943
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 47′ 20.28″ N, 1° 6′ 14.2″ W
UTM: 30U 633643 5628071

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1911
Material: wood, oak?
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]