Alstone / Alston

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken on 19 March 2007 by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

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view of church exterior

Image Source: digital photograph taken on 19 March 2007 by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - south door - tympanum - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken on 19 March 2007 by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

Font ID: 12833ALS

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Margaret of Antioch

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]

Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located off the A46 (E) and the B4077 (S), 9 km E of Tewksbury

Additional Comments: re-tooled font

Font Notes: Click to view

Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Massive plain octagonal C14 bowl resting on a chamfered octagonal base." The basin is octagonal and tall, with a double flat moulding around the upper basin side; octagonal moulded base; narrow octagonal plinth with kneeling stone; modern. Flat octagonal wooden cover; modern.

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: stone

Font Shape: octagonal, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002, vol. 2: 143