Acton Burnell / Actune
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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - columns - with capitals and bases - 8
Scene Description: One deeply recessed arch in each side of the basin
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Image Source: engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving, probably from a drawing by J, Roberts, in Anderson (1864)
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INFORMATION
FontID: 03445ACT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Virgin Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Old Walls, Acton Burnell, Shrewsbury SY5 7PE, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1743 872251
Country Name: England
Location: Shropshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 8-10 km SSE of Shrewsbury
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, S side
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
Church Notes: "Early English cross church, of uniform style throughout" (Paley, 1844, unpaged)
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Described and illustrated in Paley (1844): "remarkable for the beauty and simplicity of its design, is of pure Early English character." Illustrated in Anderson (1864). The font is an octagonal block with a deeply recessed blind arcade of rounded trefoil arches. Paley identifies the material as sandstone and cites the Rev. E.H. Wainwright as source (ibid.). Noted in Timmins (1899): "Near the porch we observe an elegant font, with small, well moulded arches supporting it."
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy baptismal font of the Early English period. Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a later font in which the tub-like design of the Norman period persisted, now into an ornamented Early English octagonal font. Described in Newman & Pevsner (2006).
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.6131,
-2.6903
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 36′ 47.16″ N,
2° 41′ 25.08″ W
UTM: 30U 520969 5829278
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, sandstone
Font Shape: octagonal (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Diameter (includes rim): 50 cm
Basin Total Height: 31 cm
Height of Base: 69 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 100 cm
Notes on Measurements: Paley (1844: unpaged)
REFERENCES
Anderson, John Corbet, Shropshire, its early history and antiquities, comprising […], London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864
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
Timmins, H. Thornhill, Nooks and corners of Shropshire, London: Elliot Stock, 1899
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928