Pembridge

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BU01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: Moulding forms the capitals of the clustered colonnettes of the base and are part of the underbowl.

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 April 2003 by Gordon Cragg [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1157761] [accessed 20 March 2009]

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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: forming the bases of the colonnettes of the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 April 2003 by Gordon Cragg [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1157761] [accessed 20 March 2009]

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view of church exterior

Image Source: B&W photograph (ca. 1930?) in Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. III: pl. 155)

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 April 2003 by Gordon Cragg [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1157761] [accessed 20 March 2009]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 April 2003 by Gordon Cragg [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1157761] [accessed 20 March 2009]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06167PEM

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Country Name: England

Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located on the A44, 12-13 km W of Leominster

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 13th century, Early English

Cognate Fonts: Font at Stanford le Hope (Essex); another early octofoil font in Hereford & Worcester at Lyonshall; a modern version of these can be found at Rodbourne Cheney, Wiltshire

Church Notes: Interesting detached belfry, very northern in design

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Tyrrell-Green (1928) writes that "the curious font at Pembridge" is "a near parallel" to the one at Stanford le Hope in Essex, an octagonal basin "with very strongly curved sides". Described and illustrated in the inventory of Herefordshire (1931-1934): "Font[...]: square bowl with half-round projection on each face, with moulded upper edge and deeply moulded lower side, shaft, moulded base and upper step of similar form, round lower step, 13th-century" [NB: these bowls are described in several ways in the textual sources; the plan is that of a quatrefoil basin with angular protrusions at the angles where the lobes of the quatrefoil join, the whole distribution being symmetrically arranged]. This same source (ibid.) describes the font cover: "flat cover with moulding planted on and four brackets supporting twisted central shaft with knob at top, 17th-century."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: quatrefoil (variation) (mounted)

Basin Exterior Shape: quatrefoil (variation)

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th-century?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Buck, A.G. Randle, "Some Wiltshire fonts. Part III", LIV, CXCV (December 1951), The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 1951, pp. 192-209; r["References"]

Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1931-1934

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