Turnastone
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view of church exterior - north view
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view of church exterior - west view
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Halling, 2011
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view of font and cover in context
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
![showing the font at the far [west] end, left [south] side, by the entranceway](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1170722005_compressed.png)
Scene Description: showing the font at the far [west] end, left [south] side, by the entranceway
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view of font - northeast side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2017
Image Source: digital image of a photograph by Ron Baxter in the CRSBI (2017) [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/5645/] [accessed 22 July 2017]
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view of basin - northeast side
Scene Description: notice the damage and repairs
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2017
Image Source: digital image of a photograph by Ron Baxter in the CRSBI (2017) [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/5645/] [accessed 22 July 2017]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 07263TUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century [basin only], Transitional / Early English
Cognate Fonts: Kilpeck No. 2, Bredwardine and Madley
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, S side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary Magdalene
Church Address: Turnastone, Herefordshire, HR2 0RA
Site Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B4348, in the Golden Valley, 17 km WSW of Hereford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford
Font Notes:
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No entry found for Turnastone in the Domesday survey. A font here is described in Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. I: 241): "Font: cup-shaped bowl of reddish breccia, probably 13th-century, stem and base modern". In Halsey (1987: 107-109) as one of eight baptismal fonts "made of a local reddish brown, psammitic limestone, called 'Breccia' or 'Cornstone'", that were the work of the Herefordshire School [NB: the eight fonts are: Bishops Frome, Bosbury, Bredwardine, Kilpeck, Kingstone, Madley, Turnastone and Vowchurch]. Noted and illustrated in the CRSBI (2017): "font consisting of a low cup-shaped breccia conglomerate bowl on a modern support consisting of step, base and stem. The bowl is polished on the exterior and unlined. [...] The font is one of eight in the county, dated c.1140-50 by Halsey (1987), although Zarnecki preferred a date in the third quarter of the 12thc and RCHME says 'probably 13th-century'."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 504240 5763578
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.022817, -2.938207
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 1′ 22.14″ N, 2° 56′ 17.54″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (psammitic limestone)
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 8 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 59 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 75 cm*
Basin Total Height: 28 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2017)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat; appears modern
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. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1931-1934, p. xlii, 241
- Halsey, Richard, "Eight Herefordshire marble fonts", Romanesque and Gothic: Essays for George Zarnecki, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell, 1987, p. 107