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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - intersecting arches

Scene Description: all around

Image Source: Calverley (1899)

Copyright Instructions: source is PD

BU01: design element - motifs - interlace

Image Source: Calverley (1899)

Copyright Instructions: source is PD

BU02: design element - motifs - trefoil

Scene Description: in some of the interstices of the interlace

Image Source: Calverley (1899)

Copyright Instructions: source is PD

LB01: symbol - shield - blank

Scene Description: at least one of them, on the stem of the base

Image Source: Calverley (1899)

Copyright Instructions: source is PD

LB02: design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 4 petals

Scene Description: at least one of them, on the stem of the base

Image Source: Calverley (1899)

Copyright Instructions: source is PD

R01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: at the upper rim

Image Source: Calverley (1899)

Copyright Instructions: source is PD

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view of basin

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Image Source: Calverley (1899)

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01528TOR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael

Church Location: Torpenhow CA7 1HT, United Kingdom

Country Name: England

Location: Cumbria, North West

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A595, 15 km NE of Cockermouth

Historical Region: formerly Cumberland

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 11th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite font?]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font [base only]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.7469, -3.2353

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 44′ 48.84″ N, 3° 14′ 7.08″ W

UTM: 30U 484854 6066653

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

Cox, John Charles, Cumberland and Westmorland, London: George Allen & Co. Ltd., 1913

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cumberland and Westmorland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1967