Lower Cam / Cam
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view of church exterior - east view
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 13860CAM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Bartholomew
Church Patron Saints: St. Bartholomew
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located near Dursley
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1844?
Century and Period: 19th century (mid?), Victorian
Workshop/Group/Artisan: designed by George Madan? / heraldic font
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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Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "especially good the Dec[orated] font" [NB: Neo-decorated, that is; probably by Rev. George Madan's design. Madan was vicar at Cam 1938- 1952; his son, Falconer Madan, became Librarian of the Bodleian at Oxford]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Location: on a carved scroll that wraps around the underbowl
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat with a ring handle; modern
REFERENCES
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002