Brinsop

INFORMATION

FontID: 06802BRI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. George
Church Patron Saints: St. George
Country Name: England
Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 10 km NW of Hereford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Norman? / Transitional?
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907: 201) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Described in the Herefordshire inventory (1931-1934, vol. II: 28): "Font: round tapering bowl with chamfered band near bottom, chamfered base and plinth, late 12th or early 13th-century."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

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