Hereford No. 1 / Herefordie

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Apostle or saint - Apostles - 12

Scene Description: 12 Apostles stand in a round-arch arcade with a wide ornamental border around the upper rim

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 July 1998 by BSI

animal - mammal - lion - protome - 4

Scene Description: located at 90-degree angles of the base

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 July 1998 by BSI

design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - beaded-tape - columns - patterned columns with capitals and bases

Scene Description: the shafts of the columns bear a variety of patterns; the capitals and bases are fairly plain

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 July 1998 by BSI

design element - motifs - foliage

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 July 1998 by BSI

design element - patterns - fretwork - Grecian / Greek

Scene Description: alarge pattern all around

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 July 1998 by BSI

view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 July 2014 by Diliff [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hereford_Cathedral_Exterior_from_NW,_Herefordshire,_UK_-_Diliff.jpg] [accessed 18 November 2016]

Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church interior - chancel - rood-screen, choir-screen; iconostasis

Image Source: digital image of a 1890-1900 photomechanical print: photochrom, color, Photochrom Print Collection [ppmsc.08439] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cathedral_choir_screen,_Hereford,_England-LCCN2002696800.tif] [accessed 18 November 2016]

Copyright Instructions: PD 1923

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Bond (1908)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 July 1998 by BSI

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital image of an ill. in Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. I: pl. 127)

Copyright Instructions: Assumed PD

view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2012 by Hugh Llewelyn [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hereford_Cathedral_(7823208560).jpg] [accessed 18 November 2016]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00290HER

Church/Chapel: Cathedral of St. Mary and King Ethelbert

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: 5 College Cloisters, Cathedral Close, Hereford HR1 2NG, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1432 374200

Country Name: England

Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: In the town centre, within the A438/Victoria St loop, on the N bank of the Wye river

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford

Historical Region: Hundred of Cutestornes [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, near the entrance, S aisle, W end

Date: ca. 1170?

Century and Period: 12th century, Medieval [altered]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Herefordshire school

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for Hereford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SO5139/hereford/] [accessed 18 May 2015], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it despite the lord and tennant of both parts being the Church of St. Mary. A font here is noted in Tymms (1834). Described and illustrated in Bond (1908). Tub-shaped font of light grey stone [white sandstone] has geometric ornament pattern on upper part of sides under which are round arches resting on columns; each arch is filled with a figure that is identified in Herefordshire (1931-1934) as "probably the twelve apostles, several apparently holding books and all badly defaced". The basin rests on a three-level platform of yellow sandstone of later date adorned with four animal torsos. The wider plinth on which it is raised has a colourful mosaic pattern on the upper surface. Gardner (1925) dates it to ca. 1170. Tyrrell-Green (1928) states that the fonts at Belton, Hereford Cathedral, Micheldean (Gloucs.) and Rendcombe (Gloucs.) were "evidently produced by the same hand, or by the same school of workmen". On-site notes: four lions adorn the foot of the modern base; the bowl is carved with an arcade, 12 arches with 12 figures; this font is similar to the base found at Burghill; in fact, it appears that the Burghill artist may have copied this cathedral's font; the basin well is lined with lead, slow to drain - central hole with the usual plumbing [a/p English standard] with a chained rubber bathtub stopper; evidence of an earlier lid - there are metal posts in the rim.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.0542, -2.716

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 3′ 15.12″ N, 2° 42′ 57.6″ W

UTM: 30U 519473 5767105

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (white for the upper, yellow for the lower)

Font Shape: tub-shaped -- cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: lead lining

Rim Thickness: 8-9 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 64 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 81 cm*

Basin Depth: 30 cm*

Height of Basin Side: 55 cm*

Basin Total Height: 55 cm*

Height of Base: 36 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 91 cm*

Font Height (with Plinth): 120 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Notes: plain round flat lid

REFERENCES

Hereford Cathedral [a guide], Much Wenlock, Shropshire: RJL Smith & Assocs., 1988

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Gardner, Samuel, A Guide to English Gothic Architecture (illustrated by numerous drawings & photographs), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1925

Gethyn-Jones, Eric, The Dymock School of Sculpture, London: Phillimore, 1979

Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1931-1934

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979

Tymms, Samuel, Family Topographer, being a compendious account of the antient and present state of the counties of England: vol. IV, Oxford circuit, London: Nichols & Son, 1834

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928

Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002