Botusfleming / Botus Fleming
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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches - 28?
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Image Source: digital photograph in A Snap in Time [http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Botus%20Fleming.html] [accessed 13 November 2009]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 01500BOT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Botusfleming, Saltash PL12 6NJ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1752 844456
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located just N of Saltash
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1230? / ca. 1190?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Early English
Font Notes:
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'On the ancient stone fonts of Cornwall' (1850) suggests a date ca. 1230, in the Early English period [aka First Pointed] for this font. Noted in Murray (1865), in Cox & Harvey (1907) and in Cox (1912) as a baptismal font of the Early English period: "Of older church, massive font, 29 in. square, with slightly pointed arcading, c. 1190, remains". Noted in Pevsner (1970): Font. Of Purbeck table-top type, with seven flat little blank niches with pointed heads on each side." Illustrated in A Snap in Time [http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Botus%20Fleming.html] [accessed 13 November 2009]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.429785, -4.24745
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 25′ 47.23″ N, 4° 14′ 50.82″ W
UTM: 30U 411400 5587161
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Trapezoidal Basin: 82.5 x 82.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [in ft. and in. in Cox (1912)]
REFERENCES
"On the ancient stone fonts of Cornwall: a communication", 83 (April 1851) / New Series no. 47, Ecclesiologist, 1851, pp. 96-102; p. 100
Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Murray, John, A handbook for travellers in Devon and Cornwall, London: John Murray, 1865
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970