Sheepscombe

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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, 2007 [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

Font ID: 12966SHE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1849
Font Century and Period/Style: 19th century (mid), Victorian
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Apostle
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Evangelist
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the B4070, 8 km NNE of Stroud, 10 km SE of Gloucester
Font Notes:
Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Dated 1848; still entirely Gothick". [NB: no record of an earlier church found].
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: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Location: on one side of the basin
Inscription Text: '1849"
Inscription Source: [cf. Images Area]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with central octagonal knob

REFERENCES

  • Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002, vol. 1: 600