Cerney Wick
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view of church exterior - north side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 13861CER
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located by the Cotswold Pater Park, 3 km from South Cerney
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1847-1848?
Century and Period: 19th century (mid?), Victorian
Workshop/Group/Artisan: J.P. St. Aubyn? [cf. ChurchNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of this church and font.
Church Notes: The church was built by Victorian Gothic Revival architect J.P. [James Piers] St. Aubin (1815-1895) and the font may have been designed by him as well
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "simple stone font." The Nov. 1848 issue of The Gentleman's Magazine (p. 528) informs of the consecration of this church on 24 August of the same year, in the parish of South Cerney, "ïntended as a chapel of ease to the mother church, which is distant nearly two miles from the township." The font consists of a plainbasin that is cylindrical but has an octagonal underbowl, raised on an ctagonal pedestal base decorated with a single moulding at the centre ring position; moulded circular lower base. Wooden cover, round and flat, with metal decorations and old fashioned locking mechanism, a modern cover imitating old models.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002