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Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007
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view of church exterior - west tower
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes April 2007
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes April 2007
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 12934CAI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Matthew
Church Patron Saints: St. Matthew
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located near Stroud, 20 km from Gloucester
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1830s?
Century and Period: 19th century, Victorian
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for the photographs of this church and font.
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with vertical sides decorated with traceried panels separated by stylised buttresses; floral/foliage motifs at the lower angles; panelled underbowl; octagonal stem decorated with tracery panels similar to those on the basin; moulded lower base, also octagonal. Octagonal plinth. Flat octagonal wooden cover with metal ring handle. [NB: John Wilkes notes that there may be two 19th-century fonts in this church, possiby related to two different building campaigns at the church: "one 1835-37 by Charles Baker; the other 1897-98 by Walter Planck"]. The entry in Kelly's Directory of 1856 mentions only one font at St. Matthew's church.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th century?
Material:
wood,
oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]