Doynton
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view of church exterior - northeast 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
Scene Description: the 19th-century font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 13899DOY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
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 off (N) the A420, NE of Wick
Century and Period: 10th - 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of this church and modern font.
Font Notes:
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Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font […] c. 1866". The Benefice of Wick, Doynton and Dyrham web site [www.wickbenefice.net] notes that "the church goes back to Saxon times" and that there are remains of 12th-century work and a leper window in the south wall, though the building was renovated between 1864 and 1867. The present font, consisting of an octagonal basin with vertical sides decorated with tracery, raised on an octagonal pedestal with pairs of trefoiled arches or windows, and a splayed lower base. The wooden cover is round and flat, probably contemporary with the font [NB: we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002