Drybrook
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view of church exterior - south 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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 13901DRY
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 WSW of Mitcheldean
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1817?
Century and Period: 19th century, Modern
Workshop/Group/Artisan: wooden font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of this church and font.
Church Notes: a foresters' church
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font made of wood; it consists of an octagonal basin with vertical sides decorated with quadrangular panels with floral motifs inscribed; graded underbowl chamfer; the base is a cluster of five colonnettes, the outer ones round with moulded capitals and bases, on an octagonal lower base; octagonal font cover; all these parts made of wood. Standing on a polygonal plinth. The font probably dates of the date of the church itself, ca. 1817.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: wood
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1817?
Material: wood
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]