Marshfield

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Results: 5 records

B01: symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - 8

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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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view of church exterior - south view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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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: 13945MAR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the A420, 22 km E of Bristol, 12 km NNE of Bath
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of the church and the new font
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.

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