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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]
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view of font and cover
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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 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 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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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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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01543PEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1662
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only?] -- 17th century[base] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Matthew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, centre aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Matthew
Church Address: 1824 Main Rd, Pentrich, Ripley DE5 3RE, United Kingdom
Site Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Derby
Additional Comments: altered font / composite font: Norman basin on 17th century base?
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]
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]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 605849 5881113
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.069, -1.42018
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 4′ 8.4″ N, 1° 25′ 12.65″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Location: on the side of the stem
Inscription Text: "1662"
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
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, p. 195
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Derbyshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978, p. 298 (?)