Stratford-upon-Avon No. 2 / Stradforde

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Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2023

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view of church exterior

Source caption: "The Guild Chapel, Stratford Upon Avon. The Guild Chapel one of Stratford's best-known buildings. Situated on the corner of Chapel Lane and Church Street, it overlooks the site of New Place, Shakespeare's Stratford home, in which he died, in April 1616. It was largely built in the fifteenth century, as the chapel for the Guild of the Holy Cross, which was suppressed by Henry VIII. In the following centuries the building was very poorly maintained hence the creation in 1954 of The Friends of the Guild Chapel."
Scene Description: Source caption: "The Guild Chapel, Stratford Upon Avon. The Guild Chapel one of Stratford's best-known buildings. Situated on the corner of Chapel Lane and Church Street, it overlooks the site of New Place, Shakespeare's Stratford home, in which he died, in April 1616. It was largely built in the fifteenth century, as the chapel for the Guild of the Holy Cross, which was suppressed by Henry VIII. In the following centuries the building was very poorly maintained hence the creation in 1954 of The Friends of the Guild Chapel."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rude Health, 2012
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 16 October 2012 by Rude Health [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3261085] [accessed 19 March 2024]
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view of church exterior

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph 29 July 2023 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 10 March 2024)

view of church interior - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph 29 July 2023 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 10 March 2024)

view of church interior - painting

"Erthe upon Erthe" aka Allegory of Death
Scene Description: "Erthe upon Erthe" aka Allegory of Death
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph 29 July 2023 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 10 March 2024)

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph 29 July 2023 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 10 March 2024)

INFORMATION

FontID: 25377STR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Guild Chapel of the Holy Cross
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Cross
Church Location: Church St, Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6HB, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located about 15 km WSW of Warwick, about 50 km WNW of Oxford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Coventry
Historical Region: Hundred of Pathlow [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Barlichway
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 17th - 18th century
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: 13thC [ca. 1260] guild chapel; modified 1496; restored 1954-1983
Font Notes:
The present font in this church consists of a roughly hemispherical basin with deeply carved concave ribs raised on a slender fluted pedestal base on a tiny square lower base; probably late-17th or 18th-century. No cover present. [NB: we have no information on the font of the 13th-century chapel here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.1905, -1.7077
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 11′ 25.8″ N, 1° 42′ 27.72″ W
UTM: 30U 588338 5783014

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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