Hill nr. Berkeley

Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007
Standing permission
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view of church exterior - south view
INFORMATION
FontID: 12907HIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located 6 km S of Berkeley, and about the same distance from Thornbury
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century [re-cut ca. 1550?], Norman [altered]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for the photographs of this church and font.
Font Notes:
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Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Possibly a Norman bowl, later cut down into a hexagon, leaving the corcular roll-moulded top untouched, and mounted on a Late Perp[endicular] moulded plinth." Baptismal font consisting of a hexagonal basin with plain sides and a round upper rim, raised on a hexagonal moulded pedestal base; the basin is said to have been originally round (the actual shape of the upper rim giving the original shape of the basin), Norman, of the 12th century, and to have been re-cut into hexagonal shape ca. 1550, the date of the moulded base, Late Perpendicular. Round wooden cover with metal decoration and ring handle.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted) [re-cut]
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal [re-cut]
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002