Boxwell

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B01: design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 16

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 13858BOX

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Country Name: England

Location: Gloucestershire, South West

Directions to Site: Located 7 km ESE of Wooton-under-Edge

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: ca. 1300?

Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Gothic

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font

Font Notes: Click to view

Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Of c.1300. Octagonal bowl, with two trefoil-headed panels on each face, on a circular shaft with eight engaged pillars on circular bases." There is a plain, flat and round font cover that appears to be made of metal; probably modern.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: metal?

Apparatus: no

Notes: round, plain and flat

REFERENCES

Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002