Churchend
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
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Results: 7 records
B01: design element - motifs - floral - rose - Tudor rose - in a quatrefoil
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com[
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
B02: symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com[
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
B03: design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com[
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
BU01: design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com[
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
LB01: design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com[
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view of church exterior
Scene Description: Parish Church of St. James, Churchend
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com[
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the Churchend font shown already in the Parish Church of St. John at Charfield
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com[
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 12850CHU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St James [movedat Charfield St. John's]
Church Patron Saints: St. James
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Charfield is located 3 km from Wickar, and not far from Churchend
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for the information and photographs of this font.
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with vertical sides, each with a deeply-carved quatrefoil panel inscribing a motif or symbol (Tudor rose, shield, etc.); the underbowl is very tall and each panel has a trefoiled arch or window; raised on a short octagonal pedestal base, its sides decorated also with similar trefoiled arches/windows. Octagonal wooden cover, flat but carved. [NB: John Wilkes, of Cam, Gloucs., informs [e-mail to BSI of 22 March 2007] that the 15th-century baptismal font originally from Churchend St. James' is now in the new parish church of St. John at nearby Charfield].
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]