Walford on Wye No. 1 / Walford-on-Wye

Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1931-1934
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Results: 6 records
B01: design element - architectural - window - quatrefoiled
B02: design element - motifs - trefoil
BU01: design element - motifs - foliage
LB01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - 8
LB02: design element - motifs - foliage
INFORMATION
FontID: 06798WAL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Angels
Country Name: England
Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 1.5 km S of Ross-on-Wye
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907: 202) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Described and illustrated in the inventory of Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. II: 197 and pl. 55): "Font[...]: octagonal bowl with moulded top edge, panelled sides each with a quatrefoil or grouped trefoils, chamfered lower edge with carved pateræ, stem with trefoil-headed panel in each face, and moulded and carved base, 15th-century." The illustration in this source shows the font covered with a plain, flatr wooden lid; appears modern.
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: plain and flat
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