Sherston / Sherston Magna
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Duncan & Mandy Ball, 2002
Image Source: photograph dated 2002 taken by Duncan & Mandy Ball
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 07321SHE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Norman / Early English?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Holy Cross
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Cross
Site Location: Wiltshire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B4040, 7-8 km SW of Malmesbury20-25 km NE of Bristol
Font Notes:
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Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy baptismal font of the Norman period. The font consists of an octagonal basin with chamfered upper and lower ends, raised on a broad central shaft and four outer colonnettes, all provided with moulded bases; on a modern octagonal plinth with kneeling extension. The wooden cover is round and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; modern.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Duncan & Mandy Ball, of www.oodwooc.co.uk, for their photograph of this font
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 227