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UB01: design element - architectural - column - columns with capitals and bases - 8
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Image Source: engraving in Eyton (1859- ) with a drawing by Rev. J. Brooke, reproduced also in Anderson (1864).
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving in Eyton (1859- ) with a drawing by Rev. J. Brooke, reproduced also in Anderson (1864).
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving in Eyton (1859- ) with a drawing by Rev. J. Brooke, reproduced also in Anderson (1864).
Copyright Instructions: PD
INFORMATION
Font ID: 07061CLU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. George
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. George
Site Location: Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on A488, about 45 km SSW of Shrewsbury
Font Notes:
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Illustrated in Eyton (1859- ) with a drawing by Rev. J. Brooke, reproduced also in Anderson (1864). The font consists of an octagonal font with plain vertical sides, raised on a central shaft and eight outer colonnettes with moulded capitals and bases; on an irregular polygonal plinth. Anderson (ibid.) suggests this was originally a Saxon church. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period. Noted in Newman & Pevsner (2006): "Plain medieval octagonal bowl, with tall candlesnuffer cover of 1914."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1914
Material: wood
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Anderson, John Corbet, Shropshire, its early history and antiquities, comprising […], London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864, pl. 464
- 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. 236
- Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006, p. 222