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BBL01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
INFORMATION
FontID: 07001EAT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Shropshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the B4380, 8-10 km ESE of Shrewsbury
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Font Notes:
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Anderson (1864) documents a church in "Eton Constantine" by 1291, "originally a chapel dependent upon Leighton". Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Norman period in the 19th-century church. Lockie (2005) [http://www.melocki.org.uk/salop/EatonConstantine.html] [accessed 7 April 2010] notes: "The font dates from the middle of the 12th century; it is circular, its inner diameter being about 20 inches." Newman & Pevsner (2006) note: "Font. Norman, circular, on a decorated roll moulding and circular stem.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (inside rim): 60 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [in inches in Lockie -- cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Anderson, John Corbet, Shropshire, its early history and antiquities, comprising […], London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006