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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, 2007 [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, 2007 [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - looking northeast
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: 13104GOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1893?
Font Century and Period/Style: 19th century (late?), Late Victorian
Church / Chapel Name: Christ Church
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): Jesus Christ
Church Notes: 19thC church
Church Address: B4221, Ross-on-Wye GL18 1PB, United Kingdom
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B4221, off the M50, 7 km WNW of Newent, 10 km E of Ross-on-Wye
Font Notes:
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Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font in C17-C18 style." Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin tapering to meet the narrow pedestal base of the same shape. Flat octagonal wooden cover; contemporary. Font and cover probably of the same date as the church itself, ca. 1892-1893.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for the photographs of this church and font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 537357 5753298
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.92915, -2.4567
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 55′ 44.94″ N, 2° 27′ 24.12″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: late 19th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002, vol. 2: 510