North Wraxall
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2006
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Scene Description: note the step-like cut on the back side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Phil Draper, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph in www.geocities.com/churchcrawler/tormartn/tormartn.htm
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 11907WRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James
Church Patron Saints: St. James
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located off the A420, 16 km E of Bristol
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for the photograph of this font.
Font Notes:
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Octagonal mounted font perhaps of the 13th or 14th century; the octagonal basin has seven plain vertical sides but the lower half of the eighth side has been cut off as if to fit against a low wall; the stem of the base is a square shaft with square attached colonnettes at 90-degree angles; round lower base, probably altered; the whole font appears to be one single block of stone. The wooden cover consists of a flat and plain octagonal base with eight ribs that stem from the outer angles of the base and cirle towards the centre pivot, all of which end in knob finials.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: unknown
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]