Bowdon
Image copyright © Raymond Richards, 1973
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: several of them on the underbowl and stem of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Raymond Richards, 1973
Image Source: Richards (1973)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Raymond Richards, 1973
Image Source: Richards (1973)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 05961CHE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, N aisle [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Greater Manchester, North West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Bowdon is now part of Greater Manchester, located in its southwest end, just north of junction M56-A556 (M56 junction #7)
Historical Region: formerly Cheshire
Additional Comments: abandoned font / recycled font / disused font {cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928: 30) as one in a very large group of baptismal fonts of the 14th or 15th century that are plain octagonal with straightsided basins. Tyrrell-Green (ibid., p. 40) mentions this font as one of several "derelict fonts [...] re-erected in the church, though no longer used for the administration of Baptism." Describned and illustrated in Richrds, (1973): "The fifteenth century octagonal font [...] was cast out in the 1858 rebuilding, but wiser counsels prevailed, and it is now back in the north aisle where, although disused, it is spared the indigbity of further damage."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Richards, Raymond, Old Cheshire churches: a survey of their history, fabric and furniture with records of the older monuments, with a supplementary survey relating to the lesser old chapels of Cheshire, Didsbury, Manchester: E.J. Morten, 1973, p. 65, pl. 78
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 30, 40