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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Fairweather, 2004
Image Source: Peter Fairweather [www.churchmousewebsite.co.uk]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover - back side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Fairweather, 2004
Image Source: Peter Fairweather [www.churchmousewebsite.co.uk]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 09791CUL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. George
Church Patron Saints: St. George
Country Name: England
Location: Tyne and Wear, North East
Directions to Site: Located NE of Newcastle, between Tynemouth and Whitley Bay
Historical Region: formerly Northumberland
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1884?
Century and Period: 19th century, Victorian
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Peter Fairweather, of www.churchmousewebsite.co.uk, for the photographs of this font.
Font Notes:
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Late baptismal font of the Victorian period in the 1884 church by J.L. Pearson. It is included here as a sample of a Victorian rendition of a classical medieval type of font: the table-top mounted on a central shaft and four angle colonnettes. The gayly coloured cover is unlike any other lid classified in this Index.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th century (Victorian)
Material: wood
Apparatus: yes -- pulley
Notes: the cover is an original of the Victorian imagination painted in vivid colours, just as some of the early covers had been in the past