Great Offley

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B01: design element - patterns - tracery

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph by Rev. Gatty, ca. 1906, in Malcolm Smith, 2002 [http://www.thesmith.org.uk/places/offley/history.html] [accessed 23 April 2009]

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view of font and cover in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies, 2002

Image Source: B&W photograph by Rev. Gatty, ca. 1906, in Malcolm Smith, 2002 [http://www.thesmith.org.uk/places/offley/history.html] [accessed 23 April 2009]

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

INFORMATION

FontID: 14500OFF
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Hertfordshire, East
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A505, 7-8 km NE of Luton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with vertical sides decorated with tracery patterns, raised on a pedestal base. A photograph ca. 1906 shows a wooden cover on it consisting of a flat octagonal platform with eight (?) vertical scroll-shaped ribd around a centre pivot.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]