Birkenhead
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design element - motifs - circle - concentric
design element - motifs - semicircle
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Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary's Tower" -- remains of the former priory church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 4 December 2016 by Alex Liivet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary's_Tower_(31273123692).jpg] [accessed 23 February 2024]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 01429BIR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (fragment)
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary [originally from Birkenhead Priory]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Priory Street, Birkenhead, Merseyside, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Merseyside, North West
Directions to Site: Located on the W shore of the mouth of the Mersey river, across from Liverpool
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Liverpool
Historical Region: formerly Cheshire -- Hundred of Wirral
Date: ca. 1150?
Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Late Norman
Church Notes: "founded about 1150 by Hamon de Masci, 3rd Baron of Dunham Massey for the Benedictine Order [...] The priory's chapter house is consecrated as an Anglican church, and is still used for services [...] St Mary's Tower was originally part of Birkenhead's first parish church, opened in 1821 in the grounds of the priory." [source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkenhead_Priory] [accessed 11 Ddecember 2012]
Font Notes:
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Ellis (1902) notes: "Among the relics of Birkenhead priory (figured in the Transactions of this Society, 1890) is a fragment of what appears to have been a Norman font which has been circular, with a thickened rim, and ornament consisting of concentric circles and segments of circles. The fragment is some 21 inches long by 12 inches deep. It is probably a relic of the original foundation, in 1150." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a fragment of a baptismal font from the Norman period.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.389444, -3.011389
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 23′ 22″ N, 3° 0′ 41″ W
UTM: 30U 499243 5915594
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: [fragment]
Notes on Measurements: "21 inches long by 12 inches deep" (Ellis, 1902: 75)
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Ellis, John W., "The Mediaeval Fonts of the Hundreds of West Derby and Wirral", LVIII (New series: XVII), Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 1902, pp. 59-80; p. 74-75