Wilmslow
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Raymond Richards, 1973
Image Source: Richards (1973)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01439WIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Bartholomew
Font Location in Church: [reported in the churchyard ca. 1928; moved there "recently" --cf. Font notes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Bartholomew
Church Address: Cliff Rd, Wilmslow SK9 4AA, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1625 520309
Site Location: Cheshire, North West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A538, 10-12 km south of Manchester
Additional Comments: abandoned font: in the churchyard ca. 1928; moved there in 1863, when a new font was acquired
Font Notes:
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Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907: 188, 189) as a baptismal font of the 14th century, the Decorated period; the font "has recently been banished to the churchyard to make room for a modern sucessor". Elsewhere in this source (ibid.: 173-174) C&H provide an interesting set of transactions in the mid-17th century for items related to the font itself and to other baptismal implements. This font is listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928: 30) as one in a very large group of baptismal fonts of the 14th or 15th century that are plain octagonal with straightsided basins; the font was reported in the churchyard ca. 1928 (ibid.) Richards (1973) quotes from a paper read at the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire by Robert Langton in 1886; in it Langton narrates some of the ill-effects of the 1863 restoration, among which, "the ancient font was shifted into the churchyard [...], and replaced by a very poor new one". Richards (ibid.) provides a photograph of the disused font: the octagonal basin has plain vertical sides with a wide scotia or indent around the lower side; the base appears to consists of three parts: a round upper block, a middle section of two semi-circular blocks, and a lower section that is round at the top but octagonal thoughout.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 551306 5909269
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.3301, -2.2296
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 19′ 48.36″ N, 2° 13′ 46.56″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 173, 188, 189
- Langton, Robert, "Notes on church restoration", 4 (1886), Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, 1887, pp. 50-60; p. 50-60
- 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. 357, pl. 338
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 30