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B01: design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - 8
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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BU01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 13457BOX
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Thomas a Becket
Church Patron Saints: St. Thomas of Canterbury [aka St. Thomas à Becket]
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located 8 km E of Bath. 11 km W of Chippenham
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font
Font Notes:
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Described in 'Church notes...' (1887) in the context of some "notes [that] were taken between 1835 and 1840": "The font, Decorated, with large octagonal base with quatrefoil panels, and a square vine leaf in each." Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. Simple, with quatrefoils, octagonal, Perp[endicular]." The quatrefoils have a variety of floral motives inscribed in them; the underbowl is graded; the stem has thin mouldings at both ends; the lower base is octagonal to square; the plinth is narrow and quadrangular.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
"Church notes, chiefly in Berks, Wilts, and Oxford, with a few in Somerset and Gloucestershire", 44, Archaeological Journal, 1887, pp. 43-50; 185-193; 291-303; 397-402; p. 49
Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912