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design element - architectural - arch - pointed arch - 4

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design element - motifs - floral - lily?

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design element - motifs - foliage - leaf - clover?

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: forming the capitals and bases of the columnar base

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design element - motifs - volute

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view of basin

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view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "All Saints, Turvey: south door. The wooden door in the south porch of the church, with its heavy ironmongery, dates from the 13th century."

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - plan

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01259TUR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Carlton Road, Turvey, Bedford Borough MK43 8DB
Country Name: England
Location: Bedfordshire, East
Directions to Site: Located on the A428, 11 km WNW of Bedford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans
Historical Region: Hundred of Willey
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the S aisle, W end
Date: ca. 1200?
Century and Period: 12th century (late?) [re-carved?], Late Norman? / Transitional? [altered]
There are eight entries for Turvey [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP9452/turvey/] [accessed 11 September 2015], but none mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Gorham (1824) notes: "The font is antient, probably or Norman construction; though three of the panels appear to have been chiseled out in a later period." Illustrated in a 1840 drawing by Henry E. L. Dryden, in the Sir Henry Dryden Collection, Northamptonshire. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. The Victoria County History (Bedford, vol. 3, 2011) notes: "The three west bays of the nave represent an aisleless pre-Conquest nave [...] The church of Turvey was granted to the Prior of St. Neots by William de Alneto or Daunay in Stephen's reign (1135–54). [...] The font at the west of the south aisle has its bowl formed of four large volute capitals, looking like early 12thcentury work, and resting on four attached shafts set at the angles of a square pier, three faces of which have trefoiled panels. The bases and capitals of the shafts look like late 12th-century work, and this is probably the date of the whole font." Pevsner (1968) writes: "Font. Is this c.1200? The supports look E[arly] E[english], but the four lobes of the bowl have Norman voluted designs." Described and illustrated in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (2008), noting that "The mouldings and details of the font support appear to be of later date than the font bowl."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.16331, -0.62658
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 9′ 47.92″ N, 0° 37′ 35.69″ W
UTM: 30U 662332 5781858

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: quatrefoil (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: quatrefoil
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Rim Thickness: 15 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 27 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 57 cm*
Basin Total Height: 38 cm*
Height of Base: 55 cm [calculated]
Font Height (less Plinth): 93 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 58 x 58 cm* [width of quatrefoil]
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2015)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, with ring handle; modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-09-14 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2005-02-09 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Gorham, George Cornelius, A supplement to the history and antiquities of Eynesbury and St. Neot's, in Huntingdonshire, London: Printed by Thomas Davison, For Harding, Mavor, and Lepard (Lackington's), 1824
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968