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view of church exterior
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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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: 13906EDG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the A4173, 4 km N of Stroud
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1865?
Century and Period: 19th century (mid?), Victorian
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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Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with chamfered upper rim, plain vertical sides and a decorated lower rim and underbowl, raised on an octagonal-to-square pedestal base, a splaying square lower base and a square plinth. There are inscriptions on the upper rim chamfer and on the chamfer of the lower base. Wooden cover, octagonal and flat, with Latin cross at an almost flat angle on it. All of it likely of the date of the church iself, ca. 1865.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]