Eskdale

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symbol - wheel

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 01538ESK
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Catherine
Church Patron Saints: St. Catherine of Alexandria [aka Katherine]
Church Location: Church Lonnin, Eskdale, Boot CA19 1TG, United Kingdom
Country Name: England
Location: Cumbria, North West
Directions to Site: Located near Muncaster and Irton, in the diocese of Carlisle
Historical Region: formerly Cumberland
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Early English? / Decorated?
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period. Noted in Cox (1913): "The large octagonal font is also 14th cent.; it was cast out in 1814 and used for farm purposes, but was replaced in the church about the time of the considerable restoration of the fabric in 1874." The Antipope website [http://www.antipope.org/feorag/wells/hope/cumberland.html] [accessed 31 January 2010] quotes Rev. J. Wilson, in Penrith Observer: "The font, which is a neat specimen of Early English style, bears St. Catharine's wheel."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.3911, -3.2706
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 23′ 27.96″ N, 3° 16′ 14.16″ W
UTM: 30U 482429 6027071

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

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