Sudeley
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
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Results: 3 records
view of font
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 5 January 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 5 January 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - chancel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 5 January 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 13300SUD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1460?
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (mid?), Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B4632, just S of Winchcombe, 12 km NE of Cheltenham
Additional Comments: disappeared font: the font from the 15th-century church
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 5 January 2008]: "The church has an octagonal font made out of alabaster with inlaid marbles by Birnie Philip, circa 1865". The baptismal font is octagonal overall and remarkable in its ugliness. It is a rare achievement to put such noble materials and skills to such a horrid and kitschy end. [NB: the same source notes that the original "St. Mary's was built by Ralph Boteler circa 1460 but damaged during the Civil War", but we have no information on the font of that church]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of The Gloucestershire Photo Library, for his photographs of church and font.