Abbey Dore

PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

Results: 5 records

Click to view images and/or subjects

view of font

Image Source: B&W photograph in Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. I: p.l. 77)

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Collins, 2006 in British Churches Album [www.roughwood.net])

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover in context

Image Source: B&W photograph in Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. I: p.l. 77)

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph by (?) David Richardson [www.doreabbey.org.uk]

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION [requested] NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

INFORMATION

FontID: 05973ABB

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary, formerly Dore Abbey

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Country Name: England

Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located across the AA465 from Kilpeck, just W of the River Dore on the B4347, 16 km SW of Hereford

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the S transept, opposite the entrance

Date: 1634?

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century / 16th - 17th century[composite font], Medieval [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins, of British Churches Album [www.roughwood.net], for the photographs of this font]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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."

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

Hoffmann, Erich, "Die Kuppa des Taufsteins von Munkbrarup: eine bildliche Aussage über den 'Märtyrertod' Knud Lavars", 2001, pp. 115-120; r["References"]

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928