Sherston / Sherston Magna
Image copyright © Duncan & Mandy Ball, 2002
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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
FontID: 07321SHE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Cross
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Cross
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the B4040, 7-8 km SW of Malmesbury20-25 km NE of Bristol
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Norman / Early English?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Duncan & Mandy Ball, of www.oodwooc.co.uk, for their photograph of this font
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
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.
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