Filton

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view of church exterior - east view
view of church exterior - west end
INFORMATION
FontID: 13351FIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located at the A38-A4174 crossroads, in the NW suburbs of Bristol
Century and Period: 14th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes [http://www.allthecotswolds.com], for his photographs of church and font
Font Notes:
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Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Octagonal, Dec[orated style], c. 1845." The baptismal font now at Filton St. Peter's is Victorian and probably dated to the mid-19th century rebuilding of the medieval (14th-century?) church [cf. Images Area for the carved plate inside the church with this inormation]. The font consists of an octagonal basin decorated with trefoiled and quatrefoiled panels on the sides, and human heads at the bottom angles of the lower sides; raised on a octagonal-to-square pedestal base, and polygonal plinth. The wooden cover is also octagonal and probably contemporary with the font. [NB: we have no information on the original 14th-century (?) font of this church]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
REFERENCES
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002