Bilsthorpe
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LB01: design element - motifs - rope moulding - 2
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 01791BIL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret
Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Church Location: 3 Church Hill, Bilsthorpe, Newark NG22 8RU, United Kingdom
Country Name: England
Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A614, just N of the A617, 10 km E of Mansfield
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave, by the tower arch
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century [composite font?], Medieval / composite
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
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
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
53.135132,
-1.023752
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
53° 8′ 6.47″ N,
1° 1′ 25.51″ W
UTM: 30U 632205 5889127
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. Accessed: 2009-04-10 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912
Guilford, Everard Leaver, Nottinghamshire, London: Methuen, 1927
Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, London: Kelly & Co., 1881
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979
Stocker, D.A., "Fons et origo: The Symbolic Death and Resurrection of English Font Stones", I (1997b), Church Archaeology, 1997, pp. 17-25; r["References"]