Torpenhow
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Results: 10 records
B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - intersecting arches
Scene Description: all around
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Image Source: Calverley (1899)
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BU01: design element - motifs - interlace
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Image Source: Calverley (1899)
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BU02: design element - motifs - trefoil
Scene Description: in some of the interstices of the interlace
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Image Source: Calverley (1899)
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LB01: symbol - shield - blank
Scene Description: at least one of them, on the stem of the base
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Image Source: Calverley (1899)
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LB02: design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 4 petals
Scene Description: at least one of them, on the stem of the base
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Image Source: Calverley (1899)
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R01: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: at the upper rim
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Image Source: Calverley (1899)
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Image Source: Calverley (1899)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © jmc4, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2008 by jmc4 [http://www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/3158943173/] [accessed 30 January 2010]
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view of basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © jmc4, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 22 September 2008 by jmc4 [http://www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/3158943173/] [accessed 30 January 2010]
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view of base - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © jmc4, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 22 September 2008 by jmc4 [http://www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/3158943173/] [accessed 30 January 2010]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01528TOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite font?]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font [base only]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Address: Torpenhow CA7 1HT, United Kingdom
Site Location: Cumbria, North West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A595, 15 km NE of Cockermouth
Historical Region: formerly Cumberland
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Calverley (1899): "An interesting development of interlacing is seen in the font; of which the basin is no doubt contemporary with the church. The interwoven arches resemble Ingleton font, but here we have no grotesque Herod below, no wandering line of plait-work above; but a broad band of cleanly cut interlacing of the Norman open kind [compare Dearham font], with trefoil twigs set crosswise in the intersections of the bands [like patterns on the Adam stone at Dearham]. The stem of the font is much later, and bears heraldic ornament. It is yellow sandstone, 17 inches in diameter, 11 in height. The basin measures 24 inches in diameter, and is 14 in height. It is made of a silvery sparkling white sandstone, of which a quarry exists hard by. This is a softer material than the yellow stone of the stem, and crops out along the edge of the high ground above the red sandstone of the valley." Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a remarkable early Norman font, after Calverley. Noted in Cox (1913) as Norman: "with an interlaced band of arcading; the circular shaft is much later and bears heraldic ornament." Pevsner (1967) writes: "Font. Norman, round, with thin intersecting arches and loose knot or interlace on the underside."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 484854 6066653
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.7469, -3.2353
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 44′ 48.84″ N, 3° 14′ 7.08″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 60 cm*
Basin Total Height: 35 cm*
Height of Central Column: 27.5 cm* (diameter of central column: 42.5 cm*)
Notes on Measurements: * [measurements given in inches in Calverley (1899: 271)]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat; modern
REFERENCES
- Calverley, William Slater, Notes on the early sculptured crosses, shrines and monuments in the present diocese of Carlisle, Kendal: T. Wilson, 1899, p. 271 and pl. on opposite p.
- Cox, John Charles, Cumberland and Westmorland, London: George Allen & Co. Ltd., 1913, p. 19, 125
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 194
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cumberland and Westmorland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1967, p. 194