Ringmore

INFORMATION

Font ID: 03128RIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Tournai type? (local imitation) [Bond]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church
Site Location: Hampshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Additional Comments: ***THERE IS NO RINGMORE IN HAMPSHIRE -- THIS MAT REFER TO RINGMORE IN DEVON
Font Notes:
Enlart (1902) lists this among Tournai fonts in Britain with the comment "imités par l'art local à Ringmore". Bond (1908: 205), probably after Enlart, mentions "a font apparently copied by local workmen from one of the four Tournai fonts in the county".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

  • Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 205
  • Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, p. 777 footnote 1