Tytherington nr. Warminster
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2004
Standing permission
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view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2004
Image Source: John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 10162TYT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James
Church Patron Saints: St. James
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located just off (S) the A36, near Sutton Veny, 15 km ESE of Warminster
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: , Medieval
Cognate Fonts: the font at nearby Stourton has a similar basin
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font.
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Baptismal font consisting of an egg-cup shaped octagonal basin raised on a two-step circular base; the font appears plain but for a parallel incision marking the upper rim side; the whole is raised on a circular plinth [NB: the font at nearby Stourton is dated 13th-14th century]. There is no mention of this font in Pevsner & Cherry (1975)
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: gobblet-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: plain, flat and round