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BBU01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle - 24
Scene Description: three per side of the octagonal basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1931-1934
Image Source: Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. II: pl. 55)
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LB01: design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: a band around the middle of the stem
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1931-1934
Image Source: Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. II: pl. 55)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1931-1934
Image Source: Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. II: pl. 55)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1931-1934
Image Source: Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. II: pl. 109)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06785CAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century [part of stem] / 15th century, Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Lawrence
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Site Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A4110, 7-8 km ESE of Weobley, 8-9 km WNW of Hereford
Additional Comments: altered font / composite font / recycled font: parts 12th-13th, others 15th cent.
Font Notes:
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Noted in Tymms (1834) as a "very large" font. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports: "the font is ancient, and has an octagonal top enriched with quatrefoils." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy baptismal font of the Norman period, one of the earliest and most interesting in the county. Described and illustrated in the Herefordshire inventory (1931-1934): "Font [...]: octagonal bowl with moulded under edge and moulded rim with band of quatrefoils, moulded base, 15th-century; cylindrical stem made up with section carved with coventional ornament, perhaps 12th or 13th century."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 201
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1931-1934, vol. II: p. 47 and pl. 55
- Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=50856] [accessed 22 January 2007]
- Tymms, Samuel, Family Topographer, being a compendious account of the antient and present state of the counties of England: vol. IV, Oxford circuit, London: Nichols & Son, 1834, p. 91 / [http://books.google.com/books?id=qcouAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA51&lpg=PA51&dq=kempsford+church+font&source=web&ots=h2yFXWCzVN&sig=wFjiUVbwBUazMXVSJwmmw5-jmlA] [accessed 23 September 2007]