Down Ampney / Ampney Down

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BBL01: design element - motifs - moulding
BU01: design element - motifs - moulding
LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
R01: design element - motifs - moulding
view of church exterior - south view
INFORMATION
FontID: 13876DOW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located 6-7 km SW of Fairford, near the Wiltshire border
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 17th century
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): "Font. C17, with a plain hexagonal bowl on a tall, high-waisted pedestal." Both the basin and pedestal are decorated with mouldings. The wooden cover consists of a plain octagonal platform with three vertical scrolls around a centre pivot with a round finial.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002