Colerne
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the present, 19th-century, font [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com] [accessed 6 September 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com] [accessed 6 September 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com] [accessed 6 September 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 13753COL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Date: ca. 1200?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Site Location: Wiltshire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 12 km WSW of Chippenham
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
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The present font, consisting of an octagonal basin with decorated sides on an octagonal pedestal base is probably of the Victorian renovation, in the mid 19th century The font cover consists of a flat octagonal platform with a cross on a two-step base; probably modern [NB: the fabric of the church goes back to ca. 1200, but we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church] [NB: one of the panels on the basin shows a replacement stone, the type often found in repairs related to old font-cover damage, but, in this case, it may unrelated, unless the whole font has bee thoroughly re-carved]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and modern font
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]