Sidbury nr. Bridgnorth / Sudberie / Sudbury

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B01: design element - patterns - interlace - varied

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Image Source: engraving in Eyton (1856- ) on an original drawing by Rev. J. Brooke

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BBL01: design element - motifs - moulding - parallel

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Image Source: engraving in Eyton (1856- ) on an original drawing by Rev. J. Brooke

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R01: design element - motifs - rope moulding

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Image Source: engraving in Eyton (1856- ) on an original drawing by Rev. J. Brooke

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view of font

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Image Source: engraving in Eyton (1856- ) on an original drawing by Rev. J. Brooke

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view of font in context

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Image Source: engraving in Eyton (1856- ) on an original drawing by Rev. J. Brooke

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10221SID
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity
Country Name: England
Location: Shropshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the B4363, 12-13 km SSW of Bridgnorth
Font Location in Church: It was inside the church, in the W end, by the entranceway [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Noted and illustrated in Eyton (1856- ) engraving in Eyton (1856- ) on an original drawing by Rev. J. Brooke, del. Listed in Romilly Allen (1888) as one of several "examples of fonts with ornmament of early character". The font is a tub-shaped basin decorated with a prominent rope moulding at the upper rim, the sides covered in intricate interlace patterns; there are parallel mouldings at the lower end; raised on a crude circular plinth. Newman & Pevsner (2006) write: Font. Post-fire copy of the Norman font, tub-shaped with intersecting arches below thick snake-like scrolls." [NB: the fire they refer to occurred in 1912 and appears to have destroyed the old font].

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Allen, J. Romilly, "On the Antiquity of Fonts in Great Britain", XLIV, Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 1888, pp. 164-173; r["References"]
Eyton, Robert William, The Antiquities of Shropshire, London: John Russell Smith, 1856-