Slimbridge / Clunbridge
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Results: 7 records
B01: design element - motifs - floral
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [www.allthecotswolds.com] [accessed 27 January, 2008]
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B02: symbol
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1070109001_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [www.allthecotswolds.com] [accessed 27 January, 2008] ^re-shot October 2010
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B03: angel - cherub - head
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [www.allthecotswolds.com] [accessed 27 January, 2008]
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R01: design element - motifs - moulding - parallel
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken April 2011 by John Wilkes
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view of church exterior - west end
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [www.allthecotswolds.com] [accessed 27 January, 2008]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [www.allthecotswolds.com] [accessed 27 January, 2008] ^re-shot October 2010
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05568SLI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1664? / 1634?
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(mid?), Restoration / Stuart
Workshop/Group/Artisan: lead font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Evangelist
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Evangelist
Church Address: St. John's Road, Slimbridge, Gloucestershire, GL2 7BJ
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located about 15 km W of Stroud, on the eastern shores of the Severn
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Font Notes:
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Noted as a lead font in Batty (1848). Andre (1882) notes a post-Reformation lead font, dated ca. 1630-1640, in Clunbridge, Gloucs. So does Crossley (1941): "the last [lead font] made in the seventeenth century is at Clunbridge in Gloucestershire". Noted as 1th-century in Lethaby (1893). Both Andre and Crossley must have referred to the font at SLIMBRIDGE, which is listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a lead baptismal font dated to 1664, and described in Bond (1908) as a baptismal font made of lead, ornamented with non-figural motifs and dated to 1664. In Fryer (1908), who notes the sets of initials inscribed in the basin ("I.T." / "W.S."), as well as those on the base: ("R.B." / "A.P.") Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Circular lead bowl dated 1664; sparsely decorated with winged cherubs, roses, and kinds of balusters a little like exclamation marks. The stone base is dated 1634."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of The Gloucestershire Photo Library [www.allthecotswolds.com], for his identification of 'CLUNBRIDGE' as Slimbridge, and for the photographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 543006 5731239
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.730418, -2.377283
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 43′ 49.51″ N, 2° 22′ 38.22″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: metal, lead
Font Shape: cylindrical
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (inside rim): 67.5 cm*
Basin Total Height: 40 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [in inches in Fryer (1908: 281)]
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Initials and numbers
Inscription Location: 1)on the basin and 2)on the base
Inscription Text: 1) "1664 / I.T. / W.S."
2) "1634 / R.B. / A.P."
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Date: unknown
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and round, with metal decoration and handle
REFERENCES
- André, J. Lewis, "Leaden Fonts in Sussex", 32, Surrey Archaeological Collections, relating to the history and antiquities of the county, 1882
- Batty, Robert Eaton, Some particulars connected with the history of baptismal fonts: being a paper read at the quarterly general meeting of the Architectural and Archaeological Society for the County of Buckingham, London: F. & J. Rivington, 1848, p. 20
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 87
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 164
- Crossley, Frederick Herbert, English Church Craftsmanship: an Introduction to the Work of the Mediaval Period and Some Account of Later Developments, London: B.T. Batsford, 1941, p. 103
- Fryer, Alfred C., "The Gloucestershire fonts", 31(1908); 34(1911); 40(1917); 41(1918); 42(1920), Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 1908, 1911, 1920, pp. 31 (277-281); 34 (195-207); 40(39-56); 41 (27-35); 42 (69-88); p. 280, 281
- Lethaby, William Richard, Leadwork, old and ornamental, and for the most part English [...] with illustrations, London; New York: Macmillan & co., 1893, p. 62