Rowlstone / Rowlestone

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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]

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view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2003 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/346086] [accessed 10 March 2012]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church interior - chancel arch

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view of church interior - chancel arch - north side - detail

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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]

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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]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06794ROW
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Rowlstone, Herefordshire, HR2 0DW
Country Name: England
Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands
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 Location in Church: Inside the church, W end of the nave, S side
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman / Transitional?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Herefordshire school?
Credit and Acknowledgements: W are grateful to David Ross, of Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com] for his photographs of church and font
Church Notes: Herefordshire School church : Majestas Domini tympanum on the S portal + carved chancel...
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.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.93922, -2.91231
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 56′ 21.19″ N, 2° 54′ 44.32″ W
UTM: 30U 506028 5754282

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. Accessed: 2008-04-24 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