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
FontID: 05961CHE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Greater Manchester, North West
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
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, N aisle [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
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
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928