Elmor
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007
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Results: 2 records
view of font and cover
Scene Description: modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, March 2007 [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of stoup
Scene Description: modern stoup
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, March 2007 [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 12801ELM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saint(s): John the Baptist
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the B4008, SW of Gloucester
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
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Verey & Brooks (1999-2002) note a "square font, badly trefoiled (with a cover of 1898)" probably by F. S. Waller & Son, the architects of the late-19th century renovation of the church; they also note: "a second font is C18, of baluster type". Baptismal font consisting of a square basin raised on five supports, roughly in the Early English style but surely made in the late-Victorian period. The octagonal baluster-type object could be a stoup, rather than a font. [NB: the fabric of the church goes back to the 13th century, but we have no information on the earlier font of this church]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for the photographs of font and stoup.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th century?
Material: wood
REFERENCES
- Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002, vol. 2: 354