Watchfield
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2006
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11864WAT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 19th century, Modern
Church / Chapel Name: Chapel of St. Thomas, Watchfield [demolished 1788]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Thomas
Church Notes: Watchfield Parish Register (BRO D/P 112C/1/1) states that, ‘Watchfield Chapel having been examined and found in bad repair was taken down in 1788, the materials sold'
Church Address: Faringdon Rd, Watchfield, Oxfordshire, SN6 8SQ, United Kingdom
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A420, halfway between Faringdon to the SW and Faringdon to the NE
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: formerly in Berkshire
Additional Comments: disappeared font? / sold font? (the one from the demolished chapel here)
Font Notes:
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The current font at this church in the new church consists of a bucket-shaped basin raised on a moulded base; the sides of the basin are decorated with a flat-rib pattern; conical wooden cover wit finial; font and cover appear modern. [NB: we have no information on the whareabouts of the font from the old demilished chapel]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for the photograph of this font.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round