Longborough
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B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 32
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LB01: design element - architectural - arcade - Ogee arches - cusped and crocketed - 8
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LB02: design element - motifs - moulding
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view of font
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Image Source: digital photograph from John Wilkes [www.allthecostwolds.com]
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view of church exterior - south view
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Image Source: digital photograph from John Wilkes [www.allthecostwolds.com]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11459LON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century (early?), Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. James
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, S side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A44-A424, WSW of Moreton-in-Marsh, in the Cotswolds
Font Notes:
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Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Early C14, a beautiful piece of work. Octagonal bowl each face containing four pointed quatrefoils, on an octagonal stem with corner buttresses and pinnacles, and miches with ogee crocketed cannopies in front of rectangular panels."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecostwolds.com, for his photographs of church and font.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002, vol. 1: 457