Marshfield
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
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Results: 5 records
B01: symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
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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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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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]
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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]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 13945MAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A420, 22 km E of Bristol, 12 km NNE of Bath
Font Notes:
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Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. C15. Octagonal bowl with quatrefoils with heater-shaped shields." Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with vertical sides decorated with quatrefoil panels with blank shields inscribed, all of the sides framed in round moulding and piping; plain underbowl chamfer; octagonal stem plain but for a moulding at each end; chanfered octagonal lower base. The font cover consists of a flat and plain octagonal platform made of wood, with metal scrolled ribs arranged on top in the Jacobean style.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of the church and the new font
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood and metal
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002, vol. 1: 469