Prestbury nr. Macclesfield
Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
Results: 10 records
BH01: human figure - head - male - crowned
Scene Description: one of the four 19th-century re-carvings
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 11 April 1981 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
BH02: human figure - head - male
Scene Description: one of the four 19th-century re-carvings
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 11 April 1981 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
BH03: human figure - head - male
Scene Description: one of the four 19th-century re-carvings
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 11 April 1981 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
BH04: human figure - head - male
Scene Description: one of the four 19th-century re-carvings
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 11 April 1981 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: photograph taken 11 April 1981 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: photograph taken 11 April 1981 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: photograph taken 11 April 1981 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
view of church exterior - northwest end
![Listed in Historic England [Listing NGR: SJ9008676902]: "Chapel: c.1150 but rebuilt and restored 1747 [...] Tympanum has figure of Christ in Majesty (now badly worn) above a pair of studded oak doors. Above the corbel table are 7 now defaced figures, said to represent the Trinity, St.Peter, Richard I and figures of church and state."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1190203018_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Listed in Historic England [Listing NGR: SJ9008676902]: "Chapel: c.1150 but rebuilt and restored 1747 [...] Tympanum has figure of Christ in Majesty (now badly worn) above a pair of studded oak doors. Above the corbel table are 7 now defaced figures, said to represent the Trinity, St.Peter, Richard I and figures of church and state."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Ward, 2002
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2002 by Peter Ward [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/73205] [accessed 3 February 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery - cross - fragment
Scene Description: Spource caption: "Saxon cross, Prestbury churchyard."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Ward, 2001
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 July 2001 by Peter Ward [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/90296] [accessed 3 February 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Oliver Wood, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 September 2007 by Oliver Wood [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St.Peter%27s_Church.gif] [accessed 18 July 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01436PRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century [re-cut in 1857], Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: Nether Alderley [with two surviving heads]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: The Village, Prestbury, Cheshire, SK10 4XY
Site Location: Cheshire, North West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A538, 4 km NNW of Macclesfield
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chester
Additional Comments: recycled font: re-cut and re-faced in 1857 -- disappeard font? (the one from the Norman chapel here)
Font Notes:
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No entry found in the Domesday survey for this Prestbury. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Early English period here. Richards (1973) notes: "The font is possibly thirteenth century -- the work, however, is poor, and the crude faces on the sides, above the four supporting columns, are without clearly defined features. It was disastrously recut and refaced in 1857." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SJ9006276933] notes: "Church: early-mid C13, south aisle early C14, tower and porch c.1480. C17 alterations and restoration 1879-85 by Sir G G and J O Scott. [...] C14 font with a plain circular bowl and carved head bosses on a quatrefoil pillar (very similar to example at Nether Alderley) with Jacobean font cover."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Timothy Marlow for his photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 556654 5904754
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.288971, -2.150118
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 17′ 20.3″ N, 2° 9′ 0.43″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Date: Jacobean
Material: wood
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 189
- 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, p. 282