Wembury No. 2
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B01: symbol - shield - blank - 5
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 March 2009 by Peter A. Lugar for BSI
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LB01: design element - motifs - spur
Scene Description: in the angles at the foot of the base
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R01: design element - motifs - moulding
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view of basin - interior
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view of basin - upper view
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view of stoup
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 January 2005 by Peter A. Lugar
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view of stoup in context
Scene Description: to the right of the entranceway
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 March 2009 by Peter A. Lugar for BSI
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INFORMATION
FontID: 08809WEM
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Werburgh
Church Patron Saints: St. Werburga [aka Werbyrgh, Werburgh] [Mercian abbess; † ca. 700AD]
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located at Wembury Bay, on the SE coast of the Plymouth Sound, 10-12 km SE of Plymouth
Font Location in Church: At the N entrance
Century and Period: 12th century / 14th - 15th century, Norman? / Late Medieval?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic stoup
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Peter A. Lugar, of Wembury, for the information on, and photographs of this stoup
Font Notes:
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Holy-water stoup described in Cox & Harvey (1907): "an uncommon Norman example. A partly engaged shaft is built into the wall, the width at the top being 18 inches, whilst the bason has a diameter of 12 inches". There are five sides of the basin visible, and a pisble one, or three, embeded in the wal, making the piece either hexagonal or octagonal; the visible sides are decorated with roughly triangular shapes resembling blank shields below the upper rim, which makes the Norman dating difficult to accept; is it instead late-medieval? The lower half, a separate block attached to the top with cement, has spurs at the bottom angles. The whole is made of a very coarse granite, and it is quite possibly the work of a local masaon [cf. Index entry for Wembury No. 1 for the baptismal font in this church]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: polygonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: polygonal
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (inside rim): 30 cm* / 27.5 cm**
Diameter (includes rim): 45 cm* (width at the round top)
Basin Depth: 15 cm**
Basin Total Height: 37.5 cm**
Height of Base: 47.5 cm* [w/o the cement joint]
Font Height (less Plinth): 85+ cm** [partly buried in the flooring]
Notes on Measurements: * [maesurements in Cox & Harvey] -- ** [measurements supplied by P.A. Lugar in inches]
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907