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 font and cover

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

INFORMATION

Font ID: 13858BOX

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Date: ca. 1300?

Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Gothic

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin

Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom

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

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.

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

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, vol. 1: 202