Rowlstone / Rowlestone
Image copyright © David Ross, 2012
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Results: 7 records
R01: design element - motifs - chevron
Scene Description: on four places on the upper rim; very eroded now
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Ross, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken by David Ross/Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com/attractions.htm?attraction=3910] [accessed 7 March 2012]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Ross, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken by David Ross/Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com/attractions.htm?attraction=3910] [accessed 7 March 2012]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2003 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/346086] [accessed 10 March 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2003 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/346085] [accessed 10 March 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - chancel arch - north side - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2003 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/346089] [accessed 10 March 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - chancel arch
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2003 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/346089] [accessed 10 March 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Geroge Zarnecki, 1990
Image Source: photograph in the CRSBI (2008) [http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/he/rowls/index.htm] [accessed 24 April 2008]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06794ROW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman / Transitional?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Herefordshire school?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end of the nave, S side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: Herefordshire School church : Majestas Domini tympanum on the S portal + carved chancel...
Church Address: Rowlstone, Herefordshire, HR2 0DW
Site Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just off (W) the A465, 19 km S of Hereford, 20 km N of Abergavenny
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford
Font Notes:
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Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Described in Herefordshire (1931-1934): "Font: with circular basin-shaped bowl on circular shaft and modern base; incised cheveron-ornament in four places on upper side of rim; late 12th or early 13th century." Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008) as a Romanesque font "so modest that Pevsner fails to mention it". The basin itself looks much like the one at Kilpeck, though smaller in size and with a now faint band of chevron or zigzag around the upper rim; the single support here, unlike the five-column one at Kilpeck, is a plain broad shaft; the lower volume of the base is modern.
Credit and Acknowledgements: W are grateful to David Ross, of Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com] for his photographs of church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 506028 5754282
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.93922, -2.91231
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 56′ 21.19″ N, 2° 54′ 44.32″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 7.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 59 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 74 cm*
Basin Total Height: 30 cm*
Height of Base: 65 cm [calculated]
Font Height (less Plinth): 95 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [CRSBI (2008)]
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle
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. 222