Whelford
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007
Standing permission
Results: 2 records
view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 27 December 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 27 December 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 13279WHE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Anne
Church Patron Saints: St. Anne
Church Location: Whelford, Fairford GL7 4DZ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1285 851309
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located off the A417, 8-9 km E of Cirencester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1862-1864?
Century and Period: 19th century (mid?), Victorian
Workshop/Group/Artisan: G.E. Street
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of The Gloucestershire Photo Library, for the photographs of this church and font.
Church Notes: chapel of ease, 1863-1864 -- listed building [Listing NGR: SU1687298891]
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
No entry found for Whelford in the Domesday survey. Whelford is noted and illustrated in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [www.allthecotswolds.com] as having a 19th-century church and furnishings by G.E. Street. The font consists of a shallow polygonal basin raised on a fluted pedestal base. [NB: no record found for an earlier church here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.6885,
-1.7573
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 41' 18" N,
1° 45' 26" W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: polygonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: polygonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and round; probably from the same period as the font