Chirk
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B01: inscription - Initials
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: digital photograph in The Parish Church of St Mary, Chirk [http://www.chirk.com/stmary5.html]
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B02: inscription - date
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: digital photograph in The Parish Church of St Mary, Chirk [http://www.chirk.com/stmary5.html]
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B03: symbol - shield - blank - 2
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B04: design element - motifs - floral - 6-petal - in a circle
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Image Source: digital photograph in The Parish Church of St Mary, Chirk [http://www.chirk.com/stmary5.html]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Parish Church of St Mary, Chirk, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph in The Parish Church of St Mary, Chirk [http://www.chirk.com/stmary5.html]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 04428CHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1662
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(mid), Restoration
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Hegvald / Hegwald
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, N side, by the NW doorway
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: 11thC
Church Address: Church St, Chirk, Wrexham LL14 5HD, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1691 778519
Site Location: Denbighshire, Wales, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the B4500, about 9 km SW of Wresham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Asaph
Additional Comments: disappeared font? [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font discribed in Hubbard (1986) as having a "bowl with moulded corners and carving which includes incised roundels, a motif which appears also on the contemporary low-pitched font cover, along with turned finials." Dated to 1662. The Chirk and Ceiriog web site [http://www.chirk.com/stmary5.html] notes: "The Font by the north west door bears the initials of the churchwardens for 1662, one of whom was Thomas Pritchard (1619 - 1690), chief agent at the Castle and Clerk of the Peace for the County of Denbigh. The Font replaced that destroyed during the Civil War." [NB: the fabric of the old church is of the late 12th century [RCAHM dating] but we have no information on the earlier font of this church]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 493970 5865075
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.935278, -3.089722
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 56′ 7″ N, 3° 5′ 23″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: letters and numbers
Inscription Location: on the basin sides
Inscription Text: "D R / T P / 1662"
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th century?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Hubbard, Edward, Clwyd (Denbigshire and Flintshire), London: Penguin Books; University of Wales Press, 1986, p. 128