Tytherington nr. Bristol
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BBU01: design element - motifs - moulding - flat moulding
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, taken on 31 December 2007
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BU01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, taken on 31 December 2007
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, taken on 31 December 2007
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, taken on 31 December 2007
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INFORMATION
FontID: 13288TYT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James
Church Patron Saints: St. James
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the M32, about 20 km N of Bristol
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1700?
Century and Period: 17th - 18th century, Jacobean
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of The Gloucestershire Photo Library [www.allthecotswolds.com], for the photographs of this church and font.
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Probably of c. 1700; octagonal bowl on a nicely proportioned stem." The basin is octagonal, with a large flat moulding at the upper side, the rest of the bowl and upper underbowl curved; the lower volume of the underbowl is decorated with a graded moulding; there is another moulding as centre ring; the stem of the base is octagonal and plain; the lower base consists of two plain octagonal volumes; quadrangular plinth. Octagonal wooden cover with know handle/finial; 17th-19th century? [NB: the fabric of the church goes back to the Early English period, but we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church].
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-19th century?
Material:
wood,
oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002