Wigmore No. 1

INFORMATION

FontID: 09771WIG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James
Church Patron Saints: St. James
Country Name: England
Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 14.5 NW of Leominster
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the centre of the nave
Century and Period: Medieval
Font Notes:
In Gough (1792): "octagon, and placed in the middle of the nave." Described in the inventory of Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. III: 205): "Font: octagonal bowl, with hollowed under-edge, and octagonal stem, mediæval." [cf. Index entry for Wigmore No. 2 for a 14th-century holy-water stoup in this church] [NB: the same inventory (ibid.) lists a "part of an octagonal bowl" among the miscellanea in this church, but no details of style or dating -- object not listed in this Index]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
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