Aspatria

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 30 April 2011 by Terry Carrick [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St._Kentigern's_Church_Aspatria,_Font.JPG] [accessed 30 May 2013]

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: forming the capitals and bases of the columns of the base -- the columns themselves could be modern replacements

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Terry Carrick, 2011

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design element - motifs - unidentified

Scene Description: in pairs, between the bases of the columns

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Terry Carrick, 2011

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view of church exterior - hogback stone

Scene Description: now kept inside the church, near the font

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bill Henderson, 2008

Image Source: digital photograpjh taken 20 December 2008 by Bill Henderson [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1088241] [accessed 30 May 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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Image Source: reproduced by Terry Carrick w/o source in http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Kentigern's_church_Aspatria,_interior_view.jpg [accessed 30 May 2013]

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01529ASP
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Kentigern
Church Patron Saints: St. Kentigern [aka Mungo]
Country Name: England
Location: Cumbria, North West
Directions to Site: Located on the A596, 12 km NE of Maryport, 14 km N of Cockermouth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Carlisle
Historical Region: formerly Cumberland
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
Cognate Fonts: Bowness-on-Solway, Cross Canonby and Dearham
Noted in Lysons (1806-1833) as one of several “fonts in the churches of Cumberland [Bowness, Aspatria, Cross-Canonby and Dearham] which may be referred to Saxon times [...] all of a square form”. The Mannix & Whellan Directory of Cumberland of 1847 mentions a Norman font preserved in this church, as does the National Gazetteer of 1868. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) and in Cox (1913) as a baptismal font of the Norman period, a noteworthy example. Kelly's Directory of Cumberland (1910) notes a Norman font in this church. The Cumbria Directory [www.thecumbriadirectory.com] notes a carved baptismal font of the 12th century in the Parish Church of St. Kentigern in this town. Pevsner (1967) notes: "Font. Early or mid C13. Square bowl with, on the four sides, three patterns of big, coarse leaves, one of them based on a pair of large volutes (cf. Cross Cannonby)."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.7633, -3.3281
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 45′ 47.88″ N, 3° 19′ 41.16″ W
UTM: 30U 478889 6068502

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: to
Basin Exterior Shape: square

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal (square with widely chamfered angles); Latin-cross finial

REFERENCES

The National Gazetteer: a Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles, London: Virtue & Co., 1868
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
Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Cumberland, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1910
Lysons, Daniel, Magna Britannia, being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain, London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806-1822
Mannix, History, gazetteer and directory of Cumberland, Cumberland: Michael Moon, 1974 c1847
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cumberland and Westmorland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1967