Abbots Worthy / Abbotsworthy

Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2024

Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 8 September 2024)

Results: 6 records

design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches

Scene Description: the base appears original, Perpendicular

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2024

Image Source: digital photograph 30 August 2023 by Colin Smith

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design element - motifs - varied

Scene Description: the basin appears modern, neo-Gothic

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Image Source: digital photograph 30 August 2023 by Colin Smith

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2024

Image Source: digital photograph 30 August 2023 by Colin Smith

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view of church interior - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2024

Image Source: digital photograph 30 August 2023 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 8 September 2024)

view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2024

Image Source: digital photograph 30 August 2023 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 8 September 2024)

view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2024

Image Source: digital photograph 30 August 2023 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 8 September 2024)

INFORMATION

FontID: 25687ABB
Church/Chapel: Parish Church
Church Location: Abbots Worthy, Winchester SO21 1DS, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Hampshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located off the A33, 3 km NNE of Winchester
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 15th century [base only?], Perpendicular [altered]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson for his photographs of this font and church
Baptismal font of stone consisting of an octagonal basin decorated with late-Gothic motifs, raised on an octagonal pedestal base with a blind arcade of trefoiled arches; the lower base octagonal and plain. The basin appears neo-Gothic, probably a 19th-century replacement, while the base is likely original. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, with a handle; modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.090471, -1.289549
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 5′ 25.7″ N, 1° 17′ 22.37″ W
UTM: 30U 619784 5661277

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: [cf. FontNotes]