Aust / Austreclive / Huesberie

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Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008

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Results: 8 records

B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 16

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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BBL01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded

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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BBU01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded

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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BU01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded

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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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: on both the centre shafts and the outer buttresses -- [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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LB02: design element - architectural - buttress - 8

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view of font and cover

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view of church exterior - northwest end

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

Font ID: 14089AUS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century [restored], Perpendicular [altered?]
Church / Chapel Name: Ancient Chapelry of St John's Aust
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John
Church Address: Aust, Bristol BS35 4BA, UK
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A403, near the Severn Bridge (M48)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bristol
Historical Region: Hundred of Bentry [in Domesday]
Font Notes:
Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Restored C15 octagonal bowl with two small quatrefoils on each face, supported on a circular shaft, with a square buttress at each corner of the octagon."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 526466 5716521

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat; modern?

REFERENCES

  • Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002, vol. 2: 158