Hill nr. Berkeley

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view of font and cover

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