Chester No. 3

Image copyright © Raymond Richards, 1973
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INFORMATION
FontID: 10775CHE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Chapel of St. John the Baptist without the Northgate, Chester [aka Little St. John]
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Country Name: England
Location: Cheshire, North West
Directions to Site: One of the lesser chapels of Cheshire; The building is now known as the Chester Blue Coat School, built on the site of the ancient Hospital of St. John the Baptist, located immediately without the Northgate of the city of Chester
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 17th - 18th century
Font Notes:
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A photograph of the interior of the chapel in Richards (1973) is captioned: "Before being declared redundant and largely dismantled"; the photograph shows an octagonal font of the type that has a relatively shallow basin but the sides project vertically down all the way to the lower base, forming a single block; the sides of the basin are decorated; at the lower side of the basin a roll moulding demarcates the end of the it and the beginning of the stem; the latter is decorated with tall deeply carved Ogee arches; the lower base has graded moulding. A flat octagonal wooden cover is on the font. Richards (ibid.) informs that baptisms were regularly carried out in this chapel until its redundancy.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: unknown
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
REFERENCES
Richards, Raymond, Old Cheshire churches: a survey of their history, fabric and furniture with records of the older monuments, with a supplementary survey relating to the lesser old chapels of Cheshire, Didsbury, Manchester: E.J. Morten, 1973