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BBL01: design element - motifs - moulding

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BU01: design element - motifs - moulding

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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding

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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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R01: design element - motifs - moulding

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view of font and cover

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view of church exterior - south view

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 13876DOW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 6-7 km SW of Fairford, near the Wiltshire border
Font Notes:
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.
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: 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, vol. 1: 326