Norbury nr. Ashbourne

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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: forming the capitals and bases of the clustered colonnettes of the base

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

LB02: design element - motifs - fillet

Scene Description: on the shafts of the four angle colonnettes of the stem

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

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Image Source: engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged)

Copyright Instructions: PD

INFORMATION

Font ID: 01564NOR

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (mid?), Early English

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin and St. Barlock

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin & St. Barlock [Barlok?]

Church Address: B5033, Norbury, Ashbourne DE6 2ED, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1335 324361

Site Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located just S of the B5033, about 8 km WSW of Ashbourne, about 40 km E of Stoke-on-Trent

Font Notes: Click to view

Described by Paley (1844) as a "very good specimen of its style", having a design like "that of a short Early English clustered capital, the bell forming the bowl" and "the shafts of which the pillar [of the base] is composed make a square, those at the angles being filleted". Paley (ibid.) dates it "probably about the same date as the Font at Ashborne" [i.e., mid-13th century]. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a a noteworthy example of Early English baptismal fonts. In Tyrrell-Green (1928) as Early English with a clustered-columns base. Bond (1908) describes it as a baptismal font of the 13th century with engaged shafts of the base. In Pevsner (1978): "Font. Bowl on clustered shafts; E[arly] E[nglish]." A recent photograph of this font appears in www.thornber.net/england/htmlfiles/norbury.html. [We are grateful to Craig Thornber, of www.thornber.net, for the photograph of this font]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Craig Thornber, of www.thornber.net, for the photograph of this font]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 579545 5870469

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.9779, -1.815289

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 58′ 40.44″ N, 1° 48′ 55.04″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage System: yes [type unknown] (Paley 1844)

Drainage Notes: lead lining (Paley, ibid.)

Diameter (includes rim): 67.5 cm

Basin Total Height: 27.5 cm

Height of Base: 70 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 97.5 cm

Notes on Measurements: Paley, 1844, unpaged [NB: when Paley gives the "depth of bowl" measurement he means the external height of the basin; for the depth of the basin well he uses the expression "depth of the interior"]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: flat and round; modern

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 46
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 195
Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, unpaged
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Derbyshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978, p. 289
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 90