Abbey Dore
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Collins, 2006 in British Churches Album [www.roughwood.net])
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1931-1934
Image Source: B&W photograph in Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. I: p.l. 77)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1931-1934
Image Source: B&W photograph in Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. I: p.l. 77)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Candlelight Productions, 1999
Image Source: digital photograph by (?) David Richardson [www.doreabbey.org.uk]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION [requested] NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 05973ABB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1634?
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century / 16th - 17th century[composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary, formerly Dore Abbey
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the S transept, opposite the entrance
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located across the AA465 from Kilpeck, just W of the River Dore on the B4347, 16 km SW of Hereford
Additional Comments: altered font (new base) - disappeared font? (the earlier font of the abbey?)
Font Notes:
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Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928 as one in a very large group of baptismal fonts that are plain octagonal with straightsided basins. Addleshaw & Etchells (1948) report that when Scudamore "repaired and reroofed Abbey Dore" in 1634, "it was fitted with a font" as well at the same time. If this date is correct, the font would be of a later period than believed by Tyrrell-Green. A late date is also suggested in the Herefordshire inventory (1931-1934): "Font: octagonal stone bowl with chamfered top and moulded under edge, plain stem, 17th-century or earlier, on modern base."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins, of British Churches Album [www.roughwood.net], for the photographs of this font]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: plain and flat; modern?
REFERENCES
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1931-1934, vol. I: p. 6 and pl. 77
- Hoffmann, Erich, "Die Kuppa des Taufsteins von Munkbrarup: eine bildliche Aussage über den 'Märtyrertod' Knud Lavars", 2001, pp. 115-120; p. 48
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 31