Peterchurch No. 1 / Almundestune / Peter Church
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view of font - southwest side
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Image Source: photograph taken 12 August 1998 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3365732] [accessed 18 May 2015]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Ross & Britain Express Ltd., 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken by David Ross/Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com/attractions.htm?attraction=4327] [accessed 7 March 2012]
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. I: p.l. 38)
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design element - motifs - sawtooth
Scene Description: rather than zig-zag
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
Scene Description: a thick one all around girding the middle of the font
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view of church exterior - north portal
Scene Description: Source caption: "Norman doorway, Peterchurch. On the North side of this outstanding church is this 12th century doorway, complete with original door and ironwork."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Pankhurst, 2013
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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view of church exterior - southwest end
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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Image Source: photograph taken 12 August 1998 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3365726] [accessed 18 May 2015]
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view of font - southeast side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © CRSBI, 2008
Image Source: photograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-he-peter.html] [accessed 11 March 2012]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06793PET
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1120-1140?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, W end, N side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: Church Road, Peterchurch, Herefordshire HR2 0RW
Site Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B4348, in the Golden Valley, 15 km E of Hay, 19 km WSW of Hereford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford
Historical Region: Hundred of Stradel [in Domesday]
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Almundestune [cf. infra] in folio 187r of the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SO3438/almundestune/] [accessed 18 May 2015], and it mentions a priest, a church and half-a-hide of chuch land in it. Marshall (1938) writes: "Almundestune with its priest and church is undoubtedly the present village of Peterchurch with the manor of Hinton adjoining." Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Norman period here. Described and illustrated in Herefordshire (1931-1934): "Font: cup-shaped bowl with cable and zig-zag ornament and cable-necking between bowl and round base, 12th-century." Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008): "The font should be compared with those at Blakemere, Stretton Sugwas and Humber. The apse and tower arches, the doorway, windows and stringcourse, and probably the font too belong to the same campaign. This is likely to be between c.1120 and c.1140, when chip-carving was becoming old-fashioned and chevron gaining in popularity." The font is now raised on a tall and wide polygonal plinth. The font cover, of a low piramidal shape and topped with an orb-and-cross finial, is modern.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to David Ross of Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com] for his photographs of church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 502972 5765580
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.04083, -2.956663
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 2′ 26.99″ N, 2° 57′ 23.99″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: tub-shaped, round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 7.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 51 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 66 cm*
Height of Basin Side: 45 cm*
Basin Total Height: 67 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2008)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
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. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- 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. I: p. 211 and pl. 38
- Marshall, George, "Fonts in Herefordshire", 1(1949); 2(1950); 3(1951), Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club, 1949-1951