Great Budworth

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B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 8

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BBU01: design element - patterns - crenellated

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BU01: head - 8

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LB01: symbol - shield - emblem - Christ - the instruments of the Passion

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Image Source: Richards (1973)

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01435BUD

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary & All Saints

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & All Saints [earlier dedication to God and All Saints]

Church Location: High St, Great Budworth, Northwich CW9 6HF, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1606 891324

Country Name: England

Location: Cheshire, North West

Directions to Site: Located off the A559, just N of Northwich, about 40 km SW of Manchester

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave, just E of the tower

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Craig Thornber, of www.thornber.net, for the photograph of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907: 189) as a baptismal font of the Early English period, a noteworthy example. Noted in Pevsner (1971): "Font. Perp[endicular], large, octagonal, with quatrefoils on the bowl, heads against the underside, and a panelled stem." Described and illustrated in Richards (1973): "The font [...] is fifteenth century and octagonal. Sculptured on the panels of the shaft are emblems of the Passion." The font consists of an octagonal basin that has a band of motif around the upper side, while the rest of the surface is divided in the more common quatrefoiled panels; and has heads and foliage (?) motif on the underbowl chamfer; the octagonal stem has a charged shield on every other side; the lower base is octagonal and plain, as is the octagonal plinth, which is provided with a "priest stone" extension on one of the sides. The cover is octagonal and flat, with a small Latin cross finial/handle; appears modern. [We are grateful to Craig Thornber, of www.thornber.net, for the photograph of this font]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.2936, -2.5043

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 17′ 36.96″ N, 2° 30′ 15.48″ W

UTM: 30U 533040 5905047

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cheshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1971

Richards, Raymond, Old Cheshire churches: a survey of their history, fabric and furniture with records of the older monuments, with a supplementary survey relating to the lesser old chapels of Cheshire, Didsbury, Manchester: E.J. Morten, 1973