3-003-699 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

New Font for Witley Church, 1861. 'Witley Church adjoins Witley Court [in Worcestershire], the princely residence of the Earl of Dudley. In the restorations and additions which have been made in the church his Lordship has spared no expense...The Font...is executed by Mr. James Forsyth, of Edward-street, Hampstead-road, who is also doing sculptured subjects in oak for the pulpit. The angles and bowl of the font are in pure statuary marble; the plinth is of black Irish marble; the bowl is nearly semicircular in form. The entire decorations are renaissance in character, to be in harmony with the style of the church. On the top of the cover, instead of a finial, is a figure of John the Baptist. The whole of the works in Witley Church have been designed and carried out under the superintendence of Mr. S. W . Daukes'. From "Illustrated London News", 1861.