Norbury nr. Ashbourne
Image copyright © Craig Thornber, 2006
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Results: 4 records
LB01:
design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: forming the capitals and bases of the clustered colonnettes of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Craig Thornber, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Image courtesy & copyright © Craig Thornber, 2006 [www.thornber.net]
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LB02:
design element - motifs - fillet
Scene Description: on the shafts of the four angle colonnettes of the stem
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Craig Thornber, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Image courtesy & copyright © Craig Thornber, 2006 [www.thornber.net]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Craig Thornber, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Image courtesy & copyright © Craig Thornber, 2006 [www.thornber.net]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 01564NOR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin and St. Barlock
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. Barlock [Barlok?]
Church Location: B5033, Norbury, Ashbourne DE6 2ED, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1335 324361
Country Name: England
Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located just S of the B5033, about 8 km WSW of Ashbourne, about 40 km E of Stoke-on-Trent
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century (mid?), Early English
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Craig Thornber, of www.thornber.net, for the photograph of this font]
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]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.9779,
-1.815289
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 58′ 40.44″ N,
1° 48′ 55.04″ W
UTM: 30U 579545 5870469
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, type unknown
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
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
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Derbyshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928
