Little Badminton / Badminton Parva
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
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Results: 6 records
B01: design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - 8
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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B02: design element - motifs - panel - foiled - 8
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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BU02: design element - motifs - floral - 8
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
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
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 13910BAD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Chapel of St. Michael and All Angels [earlier a chapel of Gt. Badminton]
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Angels
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A46, just N of Great Badminton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
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. Perp[endicular], on a renewed base. Octagonal bowl with quatrefoils in the panels". Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with vertical sides decorated with foiled panels, in which a quatrefoil with a floral motif inscribed, the underbowl chamfer decorated with a large floral motif; raised on an octagonal pedestal base; the basin is very worn and damaged, but the base is pristine, either re-tooled [cf. supra] or entirely new. Octagonal wooden cover with raised outer moulding, and knob finial.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002