Butlers Marston / Mersetone

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Scene Description: EXT SW END digital photograph taken 9 April 2011 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/6037753496/in/photostream/] [accessed 19 December 2014] INT E digital photograph taken 9 April 2011 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/6037754030/in/photostream/] [accessed 19 December 2014] INT W digital photograph taken 9 April 2011 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/6037205469/] [accessed 19 December 2014] FONT E SIDE digital photograph taken 9 April 2011 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/6037205965/in/photostream/] [accessed 19 December 2014]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 April 2011 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/6037753496/in/photostream/] [accessed 19 December 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 April 2011 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/6037754030/in/photostream/] [accessed 19 December 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: with the font and cover in the centre aisle

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 April 2011 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/6037205469/] [accessed 19 December 2014]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the 15thC font [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 April 2011 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/6037205965/in/photostream/] [accessed 19 December 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 19592BUT

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul

Church Location: Bank Close / Church Lane, Butler's Marston, West Midlands, CV35 0NA

Country Name: England

Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located 2 km SW of Kineton, 7 km SE of Wellesbourne

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Coventry

Historical Region: Hundred of Tremlow [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Kington

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th century [basin] -- 13th century [base] [composite font], Medieval / composite

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Aidan McRae Thomson, of Warwickshire Churches [http://warwickshirechurches.weebly.com], for his photographs of this church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for [Butlers] Marston [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP3150/butlers-marston/] [accessed 19 December 2014]; it mentions a priest but not a church in it, though there probably was one there, The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 5, 1949) notes: "There was a priest, implying a church, at Marston in 1086. [...] The church of Marston was given by Ralph le Boteler to the Abbey of Alcester when he founded that house in 1140 [...] The font has a 12th-century round bowl; the sides are carved with an interlacing arcade and the moulded top edge is enriched with a kind of dog-tooth ornament. The base-mould of the bowl is of three cable-beads. The base has a 13th-century 'hold-water' mould and it is set on a sub-base which has a plain round mould above a splay." English Heritage [Listing NGR: SP3205849949] (1966), however, reports: "C15 octagonal font with quatrefoils, and cusped lights around shaft." [are there two fonts? is there an error? the octagonal does not look like a re-worked Norman font -- TO BE SORTED OUT]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.146467, -1.533772

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 8′ 47.28″ N, 1° 32′ 1.58″ W

UTM: 30U 600326 5778343

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2014-12-19 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.