Vowchurch

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design element - motifs - moulding - flat moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 March 2013 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3365673] [accessed 18 May 2015]

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design element - motifs - oval - 2 (or leaves)

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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design element - motifs - scallop - trumpet scallop

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2013 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3523300] [accessed 18 May 2015]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 May 2004 by Bernd Jatzwauk [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/385482] [accessed 18 May 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Bartholomew, Vowchurch. The spectacular interior, possibly the work of John Abell, fabled Herefordshire woodworker of the early 17th century."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2013 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3523364] [accessed 18 May 2015]

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view of font

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: viewed from the west end

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07265VOW

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Bartholomew

Church Patron Saints: St. Bartholomew

Church Location: Vowchurch, Herefordshire HR2 0RB

Country Name: England

Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located besides Turnastone, off the B4348, in the Golden Valley, 15-20 km WSW of Hereford

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 12th century (mid?) [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Herefordshire school

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

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No entry for Vowchurch found in the Domesday survey. A font here is described in Halsey (1987) 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]. Halsey (ibid.) describes this bowl as "the smallest of the large bowls, about 34" in diameter, and it has a straight-sided chalice shape, with no lower indent. It is incised with regular fluting, except on the side now facing east where two pointed ovoid shapes occur. There is no sign of polishing, so perhaps the bowl was painted and these two shapes framed special features?". The Herefordshire Historical Monuments... (1931-1934) describes the ornamentation as "band of scalloping to lower part, interrupted on E. side for two large leaves"; it dates the basin to 12th century and identifies the stem as modern. Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2015): "A cup-shaped 12thc. bowl, identified by Halsey as a local limestone known as Breccia or Cornstone, standing on a modern cylindrical shaft and cyma base. Except for a short section at the E, the bowl is scalloped all round; the cones following the convex profile of the bowl and the shields recessed. The E section is carved in relief with a pair of broad upright leaves rising from reeded stems. Around the upper rim of the bowl is a broad fillet. The bowl is unlined and there are remains of staples at N and S and rim damage at S, W and E." Wooden cover of octagonal pyramidal shape; 17th-century?

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.02287, -2.931504

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 1′ 22.33″ N, 2° 55′ 53.41″ W

UTM: 30U 504700 5763584

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (psammitic limestone)

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted) -- chalice-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 9.5 - 10.5 cm [calculated]

Diameter (inside rim): 66 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 85 cm* / 87 cm**

Basin Total Height: 48 cm**

Notes on Measurements: * in inches in Halsey (1987: 107) / ** CRSBI (2008)

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th century?

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

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: 2008-04-05 00:00:00. 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

Halsey, Richard, "Eight Herefordshire marble fonts", Romanesque and Gothic: Essays for George Zarnecki, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell, 1987