Morland / Moorland
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design element - motifs - roll moulding - 2
Scene Description: one at each end of the stem of the base
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design element - motifs - sawtooth
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Doug Sim, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2008 by Doug Sim [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Morland_church_general_view.jpg] [accessed 9 September 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jhsteel, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 September 2013 by Jhsteel [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Morland_church_interior.jpg] [accessed 9 September 2014]
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view of font and cover
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INFORMATION
FontID: 09857MOR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Laurence
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Location: Morland, Cumbria, CA10 3AZ
Country Name: England
Location: Cumbria, North West
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the M6, 10-12 km SE of Penrith
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Carlisle
Historical Region: formerly Cumberland, Westmorland
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1662?
Century and Period: 13th - 15th century / 17th century, Medieval
Medieval [cf. below] baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin of short vertical sides and a long chamfered underbowl, both plain; there is a narrow area of carved decoration [saw-tooth?] just where the underbowl meets the roll moulding at the top of the stem; the stem itself is cylindrical and plain, with a roll moulding at either end; the lower base is circular and a little wider. The font is covered with a pyramidal lid, profusely carved, of octagonal base and a knob finial; it appears made of oak and probably of the 17th or 18th. [NB: the general appearance of the basin and the presence of the narrow band of carving at the lower underbowl gives the impression that it may have been re-tooled, perhaps to remove whatever decoration may have covered the side panels; either way, it may belong between the 13th and 15th centuries]. Pevsner (1967) notes: "Font. 1662. Small, octagonal bowl.-- Contemporary font cover with inscriptions." English Heritage [Listing NGR: NY5980922546] (1968) dates the church "C11 with later additions and alterations", but does not mention a font in it.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
54.5965,
-2.6235
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
54° 35′ 47.4″ N,
2° 37′ 24.6″ W
UTM: 30U 524325 6049957
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: numbers and letters
Inscription Location: 1.- on the basin side
2.- on the cover
Inscription Text: 1.- [1662]
2.- [transcription not available]
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-18th century?
Material:
wood,
oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Curwen, John F., The Later Records relating to North Westmorland: or the Barony of Appleby, Kendal: T. Wilson, 1932
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cumberland and Westmorland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1967
