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view of font and cover
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 church exterior - south view
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: 12907HIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [re-cut ca. 1550?], Norman [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 6 km S of Berkeley, and about the same distance from Thornbury
Additional Comments: altered font / re-cut ca. 1550 into a different shape
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.
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: hexagonal, mounted
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, vol. 2: 541