Barnard Castle
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Scene Description: notice the different lower bases in this engraving (1804) and the one in Hutchinson (1823)
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Image Source: engraving in The Gentleman's Magazine (issue of July 1804: pl. II, fig. 4, p. 621)
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Scene Description: notice the different bases in this engraving (1823) and the one in The Gentleman's Magazine (1804)
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Image Source: detail of an engraving in Hutchinson (1823)
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Image Source: engraving in Hutchinson (1823)
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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes for Hutchinson's interpretation
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Image Source: detail of an engraving in Hutchinson (1823)
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Scene Description: [cf. Inscription area, and Font notes for Gough's and Hutchinson's interpretation
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Image Source: detail of an engraving in Hutchinson (1823)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 02049BAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17529865
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Newgate, Barnard Castle DL12 8NQ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1833 637018
Site Location: Durham, North East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 25 km WNW of Darlington
Font Notes:
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Noted in Gough (1792): "The font at Barnard Castle has in the upper part merchants' marks and these initials, A.E.M.T." Gough's footnote: "Hutchinson's Excursion to the Lakes, 366, 367. Camden's Brit. III, iii." Illustrated in The Gentleman's Magazine (issue of July 1804: pl. II, fig. 4, p. 621). Hutchinson (1823) found the detached tower "becoming ruinous"; the interior of the church "wretchedly stalled, the pavement broken and uneven, and the whole appearance slovenly and offensive"; Hutchinson (ibid) writes of the font: "There is a remarkable bason, of large dimensions for a font, in this church, of an octagonal figure, cut in black marble, or porphyry, which is found in the bed of the river Tees, near this place: four of the faces have each a shield raised thereon, bearing Saxon characters the intermediate facings are inscribed with a figure, much like some of the tradesmen's marks or devices, but doubtless, here of religious implication, and perhaps symbolical of the Trinity: the characters are cyphers, to express the usual sentence which we see inscribed in old fonts in various modes, viz. 'Pater filius et spiritus Sanctus'." Mackenzie & Ross (1834) quote Hutchinson verbatim. Murray (1873) notes "an octagonal font of Tees marble" in this church. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period.
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.541758, -1.923303
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, [cf, FontNotes]
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: initials
Inscription Location: one on every other panel of the basin
Inscription Text: "A. / E. / M. / T."
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Source: [cf Image area]
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 198
- Gough, Richard, "Description of the old font in the Church of East Meon, Hampshire, 1789: with some observations on fonts", X, Archaeologia, 1792, pp. 183-209; p. 190
- Hutchinson, William, The History and Antiquities of the county palatine of Durham, Durham: Printed and published by G. Walker, Sadler Street, 1823, vol. 3: 301 and pl. opp. p. 293
- Mackenzie, Eneas, An historical, topographical, and descriptive view of the county palatine of Durham: comprehending the various subjects of natural, civil, and ecclesiastical geography, agriculture, mines, manufactures […], Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Mackenzie & Dent, 1834, vol. 2: 234
- Murray, John (the firm), A handbook for travellers in Durham and Northumberland, London: John Murray ; printed by William Clowes and Sons, 1873, p. 91