Astbury
Image copyright © Raymond Richards, 1973
PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
Results: 5 records
B01:
design element - motifs - quatrefoil
Scene Description: on the sides of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Bond (1908)
Copyright Instructions: PD
BU01:
design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Bond (1908)
Copyright Instructions: PD
LB01:
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - cinquefoiled arches - 8
Scene Description: on the sides of the stem
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Bond (1908)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Raymond Richards, 1973
Image Source: Richards (1973)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Raymond Richards, 1973
Image Source: Richards (1973)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 01440AST
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Peel Ln, Astbury, Congleton CW12 4RQ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1260 279276
Country Name: England
Location: Cheshire, North West
Directions to Site: Located on the A34, just SW of Congleton, 15-20 km N of Newcastle-under-Lyme
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1662
Century and Period: 17th century, Restoration / Stuart
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Restoration dated 1662. Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as a regular octagonal font of 1662 with similar ornamentation on bowl and base; fine example of counterpoised cover of the post-Reformation period, late Jacobean date, hanging from a canopy affixed to the wall and panelled all the way to the ground. All sides of the basin are ornamented with a quatrefoil inside a romboid inside the square faces of the sides; tore-and-scotia form the underbowl; base is also octagonal and has a cinquefoil arch on each panel of the stem; lower base also octagonal. The whole is mounted on a large plinth. The cover is noted in Pevsner (1971) without mention of the font itself: "Font cover. A splendid Jacobean or mid C17 piece and the pedimented gallows from which it is wound down or up." Noted and illustrated in Richards (1973): "The rare and elaborate Carolean [Charles II, 1660+] font cover is raised and lowered from a canopy, supported against the wall with the aid of carved braces."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
53.1507,
-2.2314
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
53° 9′ 2.52″ N,
2° 13′ 53.04″ W
UTM: 30U 551401 5889311
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: English
Inscription Notes: on the upper surface of the plinth; appears modern
Inscription Location: on the plinth
Inscription Text: "A FOUNTAIN OPENED FOR SIN AND FOR [???]"
Inscription Source: [cf. ImageArea]
LID INFORMATION
Date: Post-Reformation / Carolean, mid 17th cent.
Material:
wood (and metal?),
Apparatus: Yes [cf. LidNotes and FontNotes]
Notes: "The cover is extraordinary, a pedimented canopy raised by a lift with another bigger pedimented canopy to contain it" (Jenkins, 1999)
REFERENCES
Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Friar, Stephen, The Sutton Companion to Churches, Thrupp, Stroud (Gloucs.): Sutton Publishing, 2003
Jenkins, Simon, England's Thousand Best Churches, London and New York: Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 1999 [2000 rev. printing]
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
Speltz, Alexander, Styles of Ornament: a Pictorial Survey of Six Thousand Years of Ornamental Design, New York: Gramercy Books, 1994(c1910)
