Mavesyn Ridware
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design element - motifs - foliage - acanthus
Scene Description: a band of, all around the basin
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Image Source: digital photograph 16 August 2008 by John Salmon [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Nicholas,_Mavesyn_Ridware,_Staffs_-_Font_-_geograph.org.uk_-_927179.jpg] [accessed 26 January 2025]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Nicholas, Mavesyn Ridware, Staffs"
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Image Source: digital photograph 16 August 2008 by John Salmon [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Nicholas,_Mavesyn_Ridware,_Staffs_-_Font_-_geograph.org.uk_-_927143.jpg] [accessed 26 January 2025]
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: "The Church of St Nicholas, Mavesyn Ridware, Staffordshire"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bs0u10e01, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 18 September 2011 by Bs0u10e01 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Church_of_St_Nicholas_Mavesyn.jpg] [accessed 26 January 2025]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Nicholas, Mavesyn Ridware, Staffs - East end"
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Image Source: digital photograph 16 August 2008 by John Salmon [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Nicholas,_Mavesyn_Ridware,_Staffs_-_Font_-_geograph.org.uk_-_927146.jpg] [accessed 26 January 2025]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Nicholas, Mavesyn Ridware, Staffs - Font"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph 16 August 2008 by John Salmon [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Nicholas,_Mavesyn_Ridware,_Staffs_-_Font_-_geograph.org.uk_-_927179.jpg] [accessed 26 January 2025]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 07183MAV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: Church Ln, Mavesyn Ridware, Rugeley WS15 3QE, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1543 472932
Country Name: England
Location: Staffordshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 6-8 km NW of Lichfield up the B5014
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the Wend of the nave, S side
Century and Period: 12th century (early?), Norman
Font Notes:
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Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Described and illustrated in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-st-maves.html] [accessed 31 December 2008]: "The font was discovered buried in the garden of the hall and installed in the church in 1879 by the then rector, the Rev. Green. A brass plaque commemorating the event is attached to the E face of the bowl. It is assumed to be the original font of the church, and to have been removed during the 1782 works. The bowl is of reddish sandstone lined with lead, and is barrel-shaped with a central annular band carved in relief with a simple running scroll of Winchester acanthus with a broad, flat stem and furled leaves on beaded stemlets to either side. There are inserted repairs to the upper rim at the E, W and S, and a loss to the lower rim at the E. It stands on five modern cylindrical shafts without capitals or bases, supported by a thick cylindrical plinth."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.749361, -1.880502
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 44′ 57.7″ N, 1° 52′ 49.81″ W
UTM: 30U 575563 5844977
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: barrel-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 10 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 43 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 63 cm*
Basin Total Height: 54 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [a/p The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-st-maves.html] [accessed 31 December 2008]]
REFERENCES
Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2008-12-31 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907