London No. 30 / Cornhill
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LB01: design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: on the upper part of the stem
INFORMATION
FontID: 09899LON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter upon Cornhill
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Country Name: England
Location: Greater London, South East
Directions to Site: Located on Cornhill St., at Bishopsgate
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, southeast corner
Date: 1681
Century and Period: 17th century(late), Stuart
Font Notes:
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Allen (1839?) notes: "The fon is contained in a pew below the western gallery; it is a plain basin of marble, with cherub's heads, &c, on a pillar of a similar form".
Described in Blatch (1995): "Font Made of marble, octagonal and with leaf decoration growing up the upper part of the stem. It also dates from 1681 but the cover is said to have escaped the Great Fire [1666] and therefore to be earlier. The font and its cover were both restored by the St,. Paul's Cathedral workshop in 1988 and have been placed under the bracket in the south-east corner where the font may previously have stood. The bracket may now be used to raise and lower the cover."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble
LID INFORMATION
Date: pre-1666 [cf. FontNotes]
Material: wood
Apparatus: yes; bracket fixed to the church fabric in the southeast [counterweight system?]
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Allen, Thomas, The History and Antiquities of London, Wsetminster, Southwark, and parts adjacent, London: published by George Virtue, 26 Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row, [1839?]
Blatch, Mervyn, Guide to London's churches (2. ed.), London: Constable, 1995