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
FontID: 12966SHE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Apostle
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Evangelist
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the B4070, 8 km NNE of Stroud, 10 km SE of Gloucester
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1849
Century and Period: 19th century (mid), Victorian
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for the photographs of this church and font.
Font Notes:
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Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Dated 1848; still entirely Gothick". [NB: no record of an earlier church found].
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