Leintwardine / Lantwardine
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B01: design element - motifs - Ogee - 8
Scene Description: one on each panel of the octagonal basin
INFORMATION
FontID: 09763LEI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary Magdalene
Country Name: England
Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 17.5 km NW of Leominster
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century, Medieval
Font Notes:
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Gough (1792) refers to this font simply as "very rude" {Gough has 'Lantwardine']. Described in the inventory of Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. III: 107): "Font: octagonal bowl, each face cut to an ogee form at the base and carried back to a circular stem, 14th-century, base modern."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Gough, Richard, "Description of the old font in the Church of East Meon, Hampshire, 1789: with some observations on fonts", X, Archaeologia, 1792, pp. 183-209; p. 199
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1931-1934