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BU01: design element - motifs - scallop - trumpet scallop
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Image Source: engraving on a drawing by Rev. J. Brooke in Eyton (1859- ) and Anderson (1864)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving on a drawing by Rev. J. Brooke in Eyton (1859- ) and Anderson (1864)
Copyright Instructions: PD
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [MarkGeorge?], 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 March 2008 [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~markgeorge/LydburyWeb/church.html] [accessed 27 March 2010]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 07004LYD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael & All Angels
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael & All Angels
Site Location: Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B4385, about 35 km WSW of Shrewsbury
Font Notes:
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Illustrated in Eyton (1859- ) with a drawing by Rev. J. Brooke, reproduced also in Anderson (1864). Square basin with the upper angles cut; trumpet scallops on the underbowl; on a square lower base. Timmins (1899) notes: "The font looks very primitive and ancient." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. In Newman & Pevsner (2006): "C12. Round, in a square deeply chamfered and scalloped block." The font cover is quadrangular and flat, with corners made to match the cut angles of the font; four low raised ribs around a taller turned central pivot.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Anderson, John Corbet, Shropshire, its early history and antiquities, comprising […], London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864, pl. 468
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 215
- Eyton, Robert William, The Antiquities of Shropshire, London: John Russell Smith, 1856-, vol. 11: pl. 202
- Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006, p. 389
- Timmins, H. Thornhill, Nooks and corners of Shropshire, London: Elliot Stock, 1899, p. 64