Shortwood
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
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Results: 2 records
view of church exterior - south 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 27 January 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 27 January 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 13324SHO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1865?
Century and Period: 19th century (mid), Victorian
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of The Gloucestershire Photo Library [www.allthecotswolds.com], for his photographs of church and font.
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Noted and illustrated in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 27 January 2008]: "quatrefoil-shaped stone font in the church on a circular stone plinth". [NB: although outside the scope of the project on account of its late date, the design of this font is of interest in that revives the quatrefoil in-and-out font shape, not a very common one].
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: quatrefoil (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: quatrefoil
Basin Exterior Shape: quatrefoil
LID INFORMATION
Date: mid 19th-century
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: quatrefoil and flat, with metal decorations and ring handle