Hope Mansell / Hope Mansel
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: the only decoration on this font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Pankhurst, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 5 September 2016 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5131828] [accessed 17 May 2018]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pauline Eccles, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 November 2007 by Pauline Eccles [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/603646] [accessed 17 May 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Pankhurst, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 September 2016 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5131674] [accessed 17 May 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
![with the font and cover at the far [west] end, left [south] side](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1180517006_compressed.png)
Scene Description: with the font and cover at the far [west] end, left [south] side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jonathan Billinger, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 June 2009 by Jonathan Billinger [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1339225] [accessed 17 May 2018]
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view of font and cover - northwest side
Scene Description: the repair to the upper rim, the general state of the stone surface, the damage to the lower base and the modern plinth are all noticeable here
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Pankhurst, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 5 September 2016 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5131828] [accessed 17 May 2018]
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view of font and cover in context - northwest side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Pankhurst, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 September 2016 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5131828] [accessed 17 May 2018]
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view of font and cover in context - west view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Michael's church, Hope Mansell, interior. Looking towards the chancel arch."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jonathan Billinger, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 June 2009 by Jonathan Billinger [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1339221] [accessed 17 May 2018]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06791HOP
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Church Location: School Lane, Hope Mansel, Ross-on-Wye HR9 5TL, UK -- Tel.: (01989) 568736
Country Name: England
Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 6-7 km S of Ross-on-Wye
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford
Historical Region: Hundred of Greytree
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, towards the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman / Transitional?
Font Notes:
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No enry found for Hope Mansell in the Domesday Survey. Cox & Harvey (1907: 201) list a baptismal font of the Norman period here. Described in the inventory of Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. II: 90): "Font: with plain round bowl with chamfered underside and moulded stem, 13th-century with modern cement repair to bowl." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SO6254219646] reports: "The sandstone font, a round bowl with moulded stem, is probably C13." Noted and illustrated in the CRSBI (2018): "Towards the W end of the nave, in the centre. It has a plain sandstone tub-shaped bowl with a broad chamfer at the bottom linking it to a conical stem encircled by two roll mouldings towards the bottom. This stands on a modern step. The bowl is unlined and has mortar repairs to the rim at NW, SW and SE, and the remains of a staple at the NE. [...] The list description and Brooks and Pevsner (2012) offer a 13thc date for the font. The Herefordshire SMR suggests that it is early 12thc while Pevsner (1963) did not record it."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.87375, -2.5452
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 52′ 25.5″ N, 2° 32′ 42.72″ W
UTM: 30U 531310 5747094
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 9.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 55 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 74 cm*
Basin Total Height: 54 cm*
Height of Base: 34 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2018)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2018-05-17 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1931-1934