Shorncote / Sharncote
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 05195SHO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located about 5 km S of Cirencester, the same distance E of Kemble
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1200?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Transitional / Early English
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font
Church Notes: The church has been redundant and in the Churches Conservation Trust since 1987 [source: Verey & Brooks, 1999-2002, vol. 1: 609]
Font Notes:
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Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Plain circular tub, c. 1200." The plain bucket-shaped tub is raised on a cylindrical base with a moulded top, and an octagonal plinth [modern?] with kneeling stone. There is a thick lead lining in the basin well wrappng around the upper rim and down part of the outer side; modern.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
REFERENCES
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002