Knook No. 1

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B01: symbol - tree - Tree of life - with 2 beasts

a/p Bond's description
Scene Description: a/p Bond's description

INFORMATION

FontID: 05430KNO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret
Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located 7-8 km ESE of Warminster, down the A36 (dir. Deptford)
Font Location in Church: [unknown]
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Font Notes:
Mentioned in Bond (1908) among a number of Norman baptismal fonts ornamented with "a tree in the centre with a fierce beast on either side; this may be of Eastern inspiration, representing the Tree of Spiritual Life and Knowledge". [NB: the font now [2004] used at Knook St. Margaret is not the one described in Bond, but an octagonal basin of indefined date, perhaps re-tooled, mounted on an octagonal pedestal base and moulded lower base; modern plinth]. There is no mention of a font in Pevsner & Cherry (1975). The 1844 Catalogue of the manuscript maps, charts, plans […] of the Britisdh Museum lists a "Drawing, in Indian ink, of the octagonal stone font in Knook Church; by S.H. Grimm, in August 1790 […] with a duplicate drawing in pencil (P.R. Kaye, IV. 489)".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
British Museum, Catalogue of the manuscript maps, charts, and plans, and of the topographical drawings in the British Museum, London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1844-