Biddulph

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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - intersecting arches

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © St. Lawrence's Biddulph, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 February 2010 by Gerard Chell

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 6 May 2010)

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Staffordshire County Council, 2003

Image Source: sepia drawing of 1844 by John Buckler, in the William Salt Library [http://www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk] [accessed 26 April 2010]

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of font in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stoke on Trent City Council, 2005 (c)

Image Source: B&W photograph taken ca. 1900-1940 by William Blake, in Museum Service Home, Stoke on Trent City Council

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07150BID
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Lawrence
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Country Name: England
Location: Staffordshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on the A527, 10-12 km N of Stoke-on-Trent
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [altered font?], Transitional [altered]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Gerard Chell, of Biddulph, Staffordshire, for the photograph of this font
Illustrated in a sepia drawing of 1844 by John Buckler, now in the William Salt Library. Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a circular font of Transitional date: "it stands on four dwarfed shafts, and has interlaced arcading." [NB: the font illustrated in Buckler in 1844 stood directly on a round plinth; a later photograph dated between 1900 and 1940 also shows the font on a round plinth. When did Cox & Harvey see it thus?]. The Parish website [http://www.biddulphchurch.org.uk/history.htm] [accessed 27 April 2010] notes: "The Baptismal Font is three feet high and is situated towards the front of the church. It stands on four dwarf shafts with ornamentation consisting of 15 pillars and interlaced arches of the Transition (Norman) period". [NB: cannot figure out what the four dwarf shafts referred to are -- the font appears to have the original structure and design]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907