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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
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: 13862CHA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Christ Church
Church Patron Saints: Jesus Christ
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located N of the A419, SW of Stroud
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, by the entranceway
Date: 1937
Century and Period: 20th century, Modern
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of this church and font.
Font Notes:
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Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Fine round stone font of 1937 by Norman Jewson, carved by William Smmonds; the wooden cover was made by Owen Scrubey (one of Waal's craftsmen)" [NB: Peter van der Waals, born in 1870, trained as a cabinet-maker in Holland but moved to London ca. 1900 and spent much of his life working in the Cotswolds. He is classed with the Arts&Crafts Movement]. Listed here as an interest and balanced example of neo-Romanesque work. [NB: no record found of an earlier church here].
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002