Hawling
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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
view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes April 2007
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 12946HAW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Edward
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Edward the Confessor
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Additional Comments: altered font: re-carved] / disappeared font? the earlier font?
Font Notes:
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Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Chalice-shaped and presumably of c.1764, though the top band of trefoils must be C19 carving. Cover dated 1949." [NB: the tower goes back to the late medieval period but we have no information on the earlier font of this church].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for the photographs of this church and font.
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1949
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and round, with wooden handle
REFERENCES
- Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002, vol. 1: 411