Derby No. 2
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LID01: animal - bird - pelican - plucking its breast - feeding its young
Scene Description: Bond reports it used as the base of the lectern ca. 1908
INFORMATION
FontID: 05227DER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Church of St. Werburgh?
Church Patron Saints: St. Werburga [aka Werbyrgh, Werburgh] [Mercian abbess; † ca. 700AD]
Country Name: England
Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands
Font Notes:
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Bond (1908) writes: "At St Werburgh, Derby, the desk of the lectern rests on a well-executed pelican vulning herself, with her four young ones; this pelican was the finial of the font cover till 1711." Pevsner (1978) notes the font cover: "Font cover of wrought iron by Bakewell, 1716, with scrolly leaf motifs; very attractive."
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1716 by Robert Bakewell
Material: metal, wrought iron
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Derbyshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978