Lancaster No. 1 / Chercaloncastre / Lancastre / Launcastre

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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. John - symbol - eagle - with scroll - in an Ogee niche

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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Luke - symbol - winged bull - with scroll - in an Ogee niche

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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark - symbol - winged lion - with scroll - in an Ogee niche

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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - symbol - 4 - in Ogee niches

Scene Description: on alternate sides of the stem of the base

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view of church exterior - southwest view

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Image Source: edited detail digital photograph taken 18 September 2014 by Antiquary [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lancaster_Priory_2.JPG] [accessed 1 April 2019]

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view of church interior - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael D Beckwith, 2013

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view of font

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view of font and cover in context

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view of font and cover in context - northeast side

Scene Description: the modern font with the cover that "was made from C17 carved panels, some [...] recovered from the original backboard of the pulpit" [cf. FontNotes]

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view of font and cover in context - northwest side

Scene Description: the modern font with the cover that "was made from C17 carved panels, some [...] recovered from the original backboard of the pulpit" [cf. FontNotes]

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view of font cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05431LAN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church and Priory of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Priory Close, Lancaster LA1 1YZ, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Lancashire, North West
Directions to Site: Located in Lancaster old town centre, beside the Castle
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Blackburn
Historical Region: Hundred of Amounderness
Century and Period: , Medieval
Lancaster [variant spelling] is one more than a score of places under a single entry in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SD4861/lancaster/] [accessed 1 April 2019]; the entry mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Bond (1908) notes a notable post-Reformation font cover dated to 1631. The font is noted in the Victoria County History (Lancaster, vol. 8 1914) as modern, with a pyramidal cover dated 1631. The Lancaster Priory web site [www.priory.lancs.ac.uk] notes: "The cover was provided in 1631. The font [base] was installed in 1848". Hartwell & Pevsner (2009) inform that the cover "was made from C17 carved panels, some. As the Rev. Peter Cavanagh has shown, recovered from the original backboard of the pulpit"; they do not mention the font itself. The wooden cover consists of two volumes: the lower half is octagonal with vertical panelled sides, the upper rim decorated with knows, etc.; the upper half is an octagonal pyramid, the sides panelled, ending in a knob finial. The cover raisng system appears to be counterweight. The font itself consists of an octagonal basin with vertical sides decorated with floral motifs inscribed in deeply-cut quadrangular panels; the lower basin side is moulded; the octagonal pedestal base is decorated with ornate panels alternating with the symbols of the four Evangelists. [cf. Index entry for Lancaster No. 2 for an earlier basin also in this church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.0507, -2.8057
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 3′ 2.52″ N, 2° 48′ 20.52″ W
UTM: 30U 512721 5989180

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1631 / Post-Reformation [materials only; made later]
Material: wood,
Apparatus: yes
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-05-10 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Hartwell, Clare, Lancashire North, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2009