Sharpness
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Scene Description: the basin-like shape corresponds to the bottom of the up-turned brass bell [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph supplied by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph supplied by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
information
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph supplied by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font cover
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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph supplied by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11978SHA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1880?
Font Century and Period/Style: 19th century (late?)
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew (new church), Sharpness
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Previous Font Location(s): originally from old St. Andrew's
Church Address: Sanigar Lane, Sharpness, Gloucestershire, GL13 9NF, UK -- Tel.: +44 1453 811360
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B4066, on the E bank of the Severen river, about 20 km SW of Gloucester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Berkeley [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: MUST USE: font made from an old bell
Font Notes:
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The font at the new Church of St. Andrew falls outside the chronological range of this Index, but is listed here as a curiosity: it was made from an up-turned brass bell from Old St Andrew's, which dates from the late 19th century, ca. 1880 [NB: there is of course a precedent of sorts for this relation between bells and fonts: many of the metal fonts cast in the Middle Ages were executed by bell makers and shaped liked upturned bells]. The font cover has a handle made from the old closing ring door handle. [NB: we have no information on the earlier church here, if any]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for the photographs of this church and font.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: metal, brass
Font Shape: bell-shaped, up-turned
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round