Fownhope No. 1

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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - 8

Scene Description: each with a fleur-de-lis inside

Image Source: Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. II: pl. 56)

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B02: design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis - 8

Scene Description: inside round arches

Image Source: Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. II: pl. 56)

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LB01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - Gothic arches - 8

Scene Description: one on each side of the octagonal stem

Image Source: Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. II: pl. 56)

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Image Source: Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. II: pl. 56)

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06797FOW

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Country Name: England

Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located on the B4224, 7-8 km ESE of Hereford

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 13th - 14th century / 15th - 16th century[re-tooled?], Decorated? / Perpendicular?

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Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907: 202) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period. Described and illustrated in the inventory of Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. II: p. 81 and pl. 56): "Font[...]: octagonal bowl woth moulded lower edge, shallow round-heade panel in each face enclosing a fleur-de-lis, stem with arched panels, 15th or early 16th-century, mostly re-tooled." [NB: unless Cox & Harvey saw the font before its present state, it is not clear why they classed it as Decorated]. The illustration in the inventory source above shows the font covered with a flat wooden lid, probably modern, and raised on an octagonal plinth. [cf. Index entry for Fownhope No. 2 for a 14th-century holy-water stoup in this church]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: three?

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: flat and plain

REFERENCES

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