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B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

view of church exterior

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com] [acessed 13 June 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 13549CLU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Augustine of Hippo
Church Patron Saints: St. Augustine of Hippo
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off the A37, 16 km from Bristol
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, S aisle
Century and Period: 15th century [re-cut in the 19th century], Perpendicular [altered?]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photograph of this church [no photo of the font]
Font Notes:
Noted in Kelly's Directory of 1883: "an ancient font". The English Heritage National Monuments Record [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=32751] [accessed 13 June 2008] notes an "octagonal Perpendicular font with quatrefoil panels in south aisle, recut in C19" [NB: there is a Norman doorway [late 12th-century?] from the original building in this chiefly 19th-century church, but we have no information on the original font]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Somersetshire with the city of Bristol, London: Kelly & Co., 1883