Temple Guiting
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
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Results: 5 records
BU01: design element - motifs - floral
Scene Description: all around the underbowl chamfer
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Ross & Britain Express Ltd, 2007
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph in Britain Express [http://www.britainexpress.com/counties/glouces/churches/Temple-Guiting/Temple-Guiting-1732-11032007.htm] [accessed 3 January 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
LB01: design element - motifs - piping
Scene Description: on the angles of the stem
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Ross & Britain Express Ltd, 2007
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph in Britain Express [http://www.britainexpress.com/counties/glouces/churches/Temple-Guiting/Temple-Guiting-1732-11032007.htm] [accessed 3 January 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - west end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 3 January 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font in context
Scene Description: the top of the font partially visible on the right side of the nave, under the flag
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 3 January 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 3 January 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 13294TEM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B4077, 2o km ENE of Cheltenham
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Ross family, of Britain Express Ltd., and to John Wilkes, of The Gloucestershire Photo Library [www.allthecotswolds.com], for their information on, and photographs of church and font.
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of the monoilithic type consisting of a shallow octagonal upper volume with short plain sides and a chamfered underbowl decorated with floral motifs; the broad stem of the base is also octagonal has piping at the angles; the inner basin well is lead-lined, and the basin is now protected by a glass see-through cover. Noted and illustrated in The Gloucestershire Photo Library: "The font is Late Dec and has a shallow octagonal bowl with each
face of the chamfer carved with two four-leafed flowers. The octagonal pesdestal has attached circular shafts. The font cover is engraved plate-glass by Bryant Fedden, 1974.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]