Bilsthorpe
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LB01: design element - motifs - rope moulding - 2
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon C. Kirsop & CRSBI, 2008
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01791BIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century [composite font?], Medieval / composite
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Margaret
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave, by the tower arch
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Church Address: 3 Church Hill, Bilsthorpe, Newark NG22 8RU, United Kingdom
Site Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A614, just N of the A617, 10 km E of Mansfield
Additional Comments: altered font? / recycled font? / composite font? [cf. FontNotes] -- Cox (1912) thinks base is pre-Norman cross
Font Notes:
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Noted in Kelly's Directory of 1881: "the only relic now remaining of such a building [a Norman church], if it ever existed, is thge bowl of the font". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Cox (1912) writes: "Most interesting relic is an early Norm[an] tub font, 37 in. high, and 27 in. in diameter ; it is supported (as ascertained by the writer in 1904) by part of a pre-Norm[an] cross." Listed in Guilford (1927), after Cox, as a Norman font. Noted in Pevsner & Williamson (1979): "Plain Norman font." Listed in Stocker (1997) as one of a group of "early font bowls set within bases of successors". Described and illustrated in the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (2008): "A plain sandstone tub font rests on a short limestone drum carved with double cable of roll with a hollow profile. The interior is unlined [...] The drum on which the font stands is also 12thc., perhaps the drum of a pier." The two upper pieces are totally plain; the lower end has the pattern mentioned above; all cylindrical.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 632205 5889127
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.135132, -1.023752
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 8′ 6.47″ N, 1° 1′ 25.51″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: not lined
Diameter (includes rim): 69 cm* / 67.5 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 81 cm [61 + 20 cm*]
Font Height (with Plinth): 92.5 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * [measurements in CRSBI] -- ** [in inches in Cox (1912)]
REFERENCES
- Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 213
- Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 36 / [http://ia301109.us.archive.org/3/items/nottinghamsh00coxuoft/nottinghamsh00coxuoft.pdf] [accessed 13 October 2009]
- Guilford, Everard Leaver, Nottinghamshire, London: Methuen, 1927, p. 39, 58
- Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, London: Kelly & Co., 1881, p. 17
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979, p. 73
- Stocker, D.A., "Fons et origo: The Symbolic Death and Resurrection of English Font Stones", I (1997b), Church Archaeology, 1997, pp. 17-25; p. 24