Tutshill

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Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008

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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

view of church exterior - northeast 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

INFORMATION

Font ID: 13326TUT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 19th century, Victorian
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Luke
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Luke
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Font Notes:
Noted and illustrated in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 27 January 2008]. The font, like the church, is modern; it consists of an octagonal basin -or, square with wide chamfers at the angles- and decorated with treflee crosses and inscriptions; the stem is square to octagonal, on a moulded octagonal lower base. Octagonal cover, probably contemporary; flat and thick, with metal decorations and ring handle.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of The Gloucestershire Photo Library [www.allthecotswolds.com], for his photographs of church and font.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Location: on alternate sides of the basin

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]