Alderton No. 1 / Alderton with Dixton / Aldritone

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Saxon font fragment".

Image Source: digital photograph by David Ross and Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com/counties/glouces/churches/alderton.htm] [accessed 17 December 2018]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 18106ALD

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret of Antioch

Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]

Church Location: Church Rd, Alderton, Gloucestershire, GL20 8NR

Country Name: England

Location: Gloucestershire, South West

Directions to Site: Located off the B4077, 6 km NW of Winchcombe, 10 km E of Tewkesbury, 24 km N of Cheltenham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester

Historical Region: Hundred of Tewkesbury

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to David Ross and Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com] for the photograph of this font fragment

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for this Alderton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP0033/alderton/] [accessed 17 December 2018] neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The Victoria County History (Gloucester. Vol. 6, 1965) notes: "The remains of a font excavated near the north door of the church suggest that the church had a pre-Conquest origin [...] The earliest material associated with the church is a piece (in the south porch) of the font, thought to be Saxon, excavated near the north doorway in the late 19th century". The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SP0020533178] notes: "Anglican parish church. Perpendicular, extensively restored 1890-2 by Knight and Chatters. [...] C12 limestone font in the south aisle with an octagonal bowl on a pedestal with engaged round corner shafts with hollow-moulded capitals. [...] C18 gabled stone-built porch with a high Tudor-arched entrance, inside which lies the greater part of the bowl of a Cll font." [cf. Index entry for Alderton No. 2 for an altered 12th-century font in use in this church].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 568703 5761249

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: fragment

Font Shape: tub-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-07-10 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.