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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Towsend, [2004?]
Image Source: digital photograph by David Towsend in the Pentrich Historical Society [www.pentrich.org.uk/html/photo-album.david.towsend.html]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 16 March 2006)
inscription
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Towsend, [2004?]
Image Source: digital photograph by David Towsend in the Pentrich Historical Society [www.pentrich.org.uk/html/photo-album.david.towsend.html]
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view of basin
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Image Source: digital photograph by David Towsend in the Pentrich Historical Society [www.pentrich.org.uk/html/photo-album.david.towsend.html]
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view of church interior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Towsend, [2004?]
Image Source: digital photograph by David Towsend in the Pentrich Historical Society [www.pentrich.org.uk/html/photo-album.david.towsend.html]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Towsend, [2004?]
Image Source: digital photograph by David Towsend in the Pentrich Historical Society [www.pentrich.org.uk/html/photo-album.david.towsend.html]
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view of font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Towsend, [2004?]
Image Source: digital photograph by David Towsend in the Pentrich Historical Society [www.pentrich.org.uk/html/photo-album.david.towsend.html]
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view of font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Towsend, [2004?]
Image Source: digital photograph by David Towsend in the Pentrich Historical Society [www.pentrich.org.uk/html/photo-album.david.towsend.html]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 16 March 2006)
INFORMATION
FontID: 01543PEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Matthew
Church Patron Saints: St. Matthew
Church Location: 1824 Main Rd, Pentrich, Ripley DE5 3RE, United Kingdom
Country Name: England
Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Derby
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, centre aisle
Date: 1662
Century and Period: 12th century [basin only?] -- 17th century[base] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to David Towsend, and to Helen Wilson, webmaster of the Pentrich Historical Society web site [www.pentrich.org.uk], for the photographs of this font]
Font Notes:
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Noted in Cox & Harvey (1907): though a Norman font, it is stamped with the date 1662, which implies the date when it was brought back into the church after its ejection by the Puritans. Pevsner (1978) writes: "Font. Rather puzzling. The foot is dated 1662; the top is of different stone and with an unsusual motif of low arches. Is it really Norman, as Cox says?" [We are grateful to David Towsend, and to Helen Wilson, webmaster of the Pentrich Historical Society web site [www.pentrich.org.uk], for the photographs of this font]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.069, -1.42018
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 4′ 8.4″ N, 1° 25′ 12.65″ W
UTM: 30U 605849 5881113
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: on the side of the stem
Inscription Text: "1662"
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and round, with metal decorations and ring handle
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Derbyshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978